SOUTHAMPTON CHILDREN'S PLAY ASSOCIATION

Charity Number: 266109

Removed charity

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Provision of organised, free, open access play activities through summer play schemes and term time after school clubs for all children aged 5 to 12 throughout the city of Southampton

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2023

Total income: £200,630

Total expenditure: £163,286

Total income includes £189,723 from 2 government contract(s)

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making

What the charity does:

Arts/culture/heritage/science
Amateur Sport
Economic/community Development/employment

Who the charity helps:

Children/young People
The General Public/mankind

How the charity helps:

Provides Human Resources
Provides Services

Where the charity operates:

Hampshire
Southampton City

Governance

Registration history:

11 January 1974: Standard registration
28 March 2024: Removed (Funds spent (by trustees))

Organisation type:

Other

Other names:

SCPA (Working name)

Gift aid:

Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid

Other regulators:

No information available

Policies:

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Land and property:

This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Financial history

Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure	31/03/2019	31/03/2020	31/03/2021	31/03/2022	31/03/2023
Total gross income	£89.67k	£90.75k	£85.83k	£118.56k	£200.63k
Total expenditure	£110.89k	£89.16k	£79.48k	£105.50k	£163.29k
Income from government contracts	N/A	N/A	N/A	£65.55k	£189.72k
Income from government grants	£81.06k	£72.93k	£71.02k	£21.95k	N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.

Title	Reporting year	Date received	Received
Annual return	31 March 2023	30 January 2024	On Time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2023	30 January 2024	On Time
Annual return	31 March 2022	11 November 2022	On Time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2022	11 November 2022	On Time
Annual return	31 March 2021	10 October 2021	On Time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2021	10 October 2021	On Time
Annual return	31 March 2020	23 September 2020	On Time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2020	23 September 2020	On Time

Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 10/02/1998 AS AMENDED ON 18/05/2000 AS AMENDED ON 28/02/2001 AS AMENDED ON 28/01/2002 AS AMENDED ON 23/01/2008 AS AMENDED ON 03/03/2011

Charitable objects

THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN RESIDENT IN SOUTHAMPTON BEING FACILITES (A) OF WHICH SUCH CHILDREN HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; AND(B) WHICH WILL IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING.

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE (SOUTHAMPTON)