Our Lady's First Steps Pre-School

Analysis

Our Lady's First Steps Pre-School is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Widnes. It was registered in March 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Our Lady's First Steps Pre-School reported income of £817k and spending of £765k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £581k to £817k (+41%), an average of +8.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Our Lady's First Steps Pre-School 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 Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (£816k), C I U Trust (£818k) and Bnos Margulis Wiznitz (£816k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £74k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 35 people.