Derwent Stepping Stones Nursery and Community Training Centre

Analysis

Derwent Stepping Stones Nursery and Community Training Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derby. It was registered in August 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02826849). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Derwent Stepping Stones Nursery and Community Training Centre reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £984k to £1.2m (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Derwent Stepping Stones Nursery and Community Training Centre sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (£1.2m), C P S Preston Ltd (£1.2m) and The Blue Lamp Trust (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 100%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.2m would cover about 11 months of spending at that rate. It employed 34 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.