C.m.a. Community Nursery Ltd

Analysis

C.m.a. Community Nursery Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03942879). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, C.m.a. Community Nursery Ltd reported income of £2.6m and spending of £2.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £1.7m to £2.6m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, C.m.a. Community Nursery Ltd sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Recycling Lives Charity (£2.6m), Dens Limited (£2.6m) and Kings Cross Church (£2.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 63% and charitable activities 36%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.1%. Grants to other organisations totalled £879k. Reserves of £216k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 96 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.