Overall GiG Score: -27 ?
Finance Score: -17
Governance Score: -11
Support Score: 1
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
  • Submission defaults: -10
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • 2 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1

SOUTH OXFORD ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION 

No longer active. Please refer to CIO number 1157509.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including a Community Foundation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There have been multiple defaults for filing returns
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 2 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • This charity appears to be dormant
Established: 48 years

soapoxford.org.uk

hiresoapoxford@gmail.com

01865726849

Charity Commission for England and Wales
This Charity appears to be dormant

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
01/01/70£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18*£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/17?£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00
31/03/16£42£35£7£0£0£0n/a010
31/03/15£39£43£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£37£33£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£38£37£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£64£112£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£70£20£50£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£25£23£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£24£18£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£19£17£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07?*£18£16£2£0£0£0n/a00
01/01/70£0£0£0£0£0£0NAN00
29/02/04£12£12£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Amateur Sport
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Oxfordshire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme.
£450 24/06/2019
Towards a summer play scheme.
Oxford City Council - Grant to South Oxford Adventure Play scheme
£5,000 01/04/2019
Funding awarded to contribute towards play workers costs for school holiday play schemes
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer playscheme
£1,000 06/06/2016
Towards a summer playscheme.
Oxford City Council - Grant to South Oxford Adventure Playground
£8,000 11/02/2016
Funding was awarded to contribute towards the general running costs to provide free supervised play during Easter & Summer school holidays.
Oxford City Council - Grant to South Oxford Adventure Playground
£7,500 12/02/2015
Funding was awarded to contribute towards the general running costs to provide free supervised play during the Summer school holidays.
Oxford City Council - Grant to South Oxford Adventure Playground
£10,000 12/02/2014
Funding was awarded to contribute towards the general running costs to provide free supervised play at Easter, Spring, Summer and Autumn school holidays.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (2)
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/02/1976, number: 270852
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR19: 148 days late, AR18: 513 days late, AR10: 104 days late, AR09: 13 days late, AR08: 41 days late, AR07: 418 days late,
Main office

55 THE CLOISTERS
PEGASUS GRANGE
WHITE HOUSE ROAD
OXFORD
OX1 4QQ

Objectives

THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN RESIDENT IN AND AROUND OXFORD. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 1ST JANUARY 1974)

Defined Area of Benefit:

OXFORD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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