Langer Playgroup

Analysis

Langer Playgroup is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Suffolk. It was registered in December 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under disability. It says it provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Langer Playgroup reported income of £31k and spending of £38k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £72k to £31k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2025, when income dropped by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Langer Playgroup sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tiny-Steps (£31k), Cis'ters - Surviving Rape and Sexual Abuse in Childhood (£31k) and Raising Twenty1 (£31k).

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.