Woodbridge Community Playgroups

Analysis

Woodbridge Community Playgroups is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Woodbridge. It was registered in November 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Woodbridge Community Playgroups reported income of £858k and spending of £780k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £200k to £858k (+330%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 140%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Woodbridge Community Playgroups sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust (£858k), Joint Colleges Nursery (Cambridge) Limited (£860k) and Seed Education Trust (£855k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 60% and charitable activities 40%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £295k would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 37 people.