Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

PLAY GLOUCESTERSHIRE 

Play Gloucestershire develop playful communities with active children. Our aim is that all children and young people in Gloucestershire should have regular and easy access to high quality, free and inclusive places for play and recreation. We provide play delivery, play advocacy and therapeutic play nurture. Volunteering is an important part of our work and our message is "Get Out and Play!"
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 15 years

www.playgloucestershire.org.uk

info@playgloucestershire.org.uk

01452505548

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£346£259£87n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/22£514£265£249£0£386£1938.762
31/03/21£233£229£4n/an/an/an/an/a16
31/03/20£222£203£19n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/19£197£194£3n/an/an/an/an/a35
31/03/18£193£178£15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£178£190£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£156£168£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£195£159£36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£128£163£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£173£146£28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£158£195£-37£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£348£340£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£350£345£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 8 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£249,876
DCMS£73,097
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
Sport England£4,830
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Play2Nurture
£240,119 24/06/2021
The funding will be used to run self-guided and interactive play sessions for school aged children alongside trained staff to help build resilience and cope with adversity.
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£4,830 29/10/2020
42
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potentials Fund. This project is a Sports development project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£73,097 28/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Play Gloucestershire
£20,000 10/12/2019
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing support and opportunities for disadvantaged and rurally isolated children and young people in Gloucestershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Friends of Ayland Gardens
£9,757 15/08/2019
12
Young Friends of Ayland Gardens
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£129,512 01/11/2017
36
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Potentials Fund'. This project is a Sports Development project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£129,512 01/11/2017
42
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potentials Fund. This project is a Sports development project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Play Gloucestershire
£19,980 08/12/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing support and opportunities for play to disadvantaged and rurally isolated children and young people in Gloucestershire
Tudor Trust - Grant to Play Gloucestershire
£7,500 08/06/2016
6
over six months towards the salary of the Director of Play at a county-wide play organisation offering open access outdoor play
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Play Gloucestershire
£9,530 12/06/2014
towards one year's salary of a part-time Volunteer Co-ordinator at a project that works in urban parks and rural green spaces, providing free outdoor active play, sports and arts activities to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Play Gloucestershire
£9,500 13/06/2012
24
towards two years' salary of a part time Co-ordinator working with disadvantaged young people in Gloucester
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-73
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/11/2008, number: 1126562
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/05/2007, number: 06260058
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR10: 11 days late,
Main office

UNIT R7-R9
CITY WORKS
ALFRED STREET
GLOUCESTER
GL1 4DF

Objectives

THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDING IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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