Abbeytown Playgroup

Analysis

Abbeytown Playgroup is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Abbeytown. It was registered in April 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Abbeytown Playgroup reported income of £32k and spending of £34k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £33k to £32k (-3.8%), an average of -1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Abbeytown Playgroup sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 60% 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 Friends of Storrington School (Foss) (£32k), The Grundy Educational Trust (£32k) and Falmouth and Penryn Unit of the Sea Cadet Corps (£32k).

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.