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Registered charity · Nottingham

The TOY Library Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £840k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire
Website
www.toy-library.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The TOY Library Limited
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£840k£768k
  • 2024£911k£852k
  • 2023£914k£812k
Earlier years
  • 2022£837k£717k
  • 2021£804k£790k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION OF CHILDCARE AND PLAY RELATED SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT AND EDUCATING PARENTS AS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY.

Grants received

15 grants · £1,481,381 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,230,044 (6 grants)
  • BBC Children in Need · £100,107 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £52,400
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £40,030 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £26,500 (2 grants)

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

5.2y median 3.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 6Other services 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£840k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.2 in 2021

38 from 52 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1117739
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/01/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2013AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/11/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04 APR 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 JUN 2018
Companies House
Company number 05687000 · Active
Contact on the register
01159753898 · linda@toy-library.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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