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Buckden Pre-School Playgroup Association

RegisteredRegistered charity number 291840St NeotsEducation and training
Income£64k2025-08-31
Spending£60ksame year
Spent / received106%5-year average
Size in its cause69th pctEducation and training
Registered1985Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Buckden Pre-School Playgroup Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Neots. It was registered in August 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Buckden Pre-School Playgroup Association reported income of £64k and spending of £60k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £53k to £64k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2024, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Buckden Pre-School Playgroup Association sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Tasker Milward and Picton Charity (£64k), Dawn to Dusk (Worsthorne Primary) Ltd (£64k) and Twyning Village Playgroup (£64k).

Income and spending

£0£16k£32k£48k£64k2021 Income: £52,6652021 Spending: £61,00720212022 Income: £49,1372022 Spending: £54,21720222023 Income: £49,2022023 Spending: £56,15220232024 Income: £58,9002024 Spending: £58,52520242025 Income: £64,3052025 Spending: £59,9122025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

PLAYGROUP FOR UNDER FIVE'S

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Tasker Milward and Picton CharityDyfed£64k
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Twyning Village PlaygroupTewkesbury£64k
Sydney Dean Whitehead's Charitable TrustBath£64k