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The Cottage Nursery

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £677k (2025)

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
Education/training
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.thecottagenursery.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Cottage Nursery
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£677k£636k
  • 2024£552k£568k
  • 2023£532k£497k
Earlier years
  • 2022£474k£422k
  • 2021£458k£398k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 0% · Government grants 0%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, USUALLY UNDER STATUTORYSCHOOL AGE, IN LINE WITH OFSTEAD REQUIREMENTS;TO BE A SAFE AND HAPPY PLACE, WHERE EVERYONE IS KNOWN AND VALUED AND WHEREALL CHILDREN'S NEEDS ARE ACCEPTED AND MET;TO ENCOURAGE ALL PARENTS TO BE PARTNERS WITH THE CHARITY IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIRCHILDREN;TO ENSURE THAT ALL CHILDREN CAN FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL, AND TO VALUE AND INCLUDE ALLASPECTS OF CHILDREN'S LIVES;TO HELP CHILDREN TO DEVELOP INDEPENDENCE, SELF DISCIPLINE, CONFIDENCE, HIGH SELFESTEEM AND A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEMSELVES, FOR OTHERS AND FOR THEIRENVIRONMENTTO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH CHILDREN CAN LEARN EFFECTIVELY THROUGHPLANNING, TEACHING AND EVALUATION, AND WITH CARING RELATIONSHIPS AND POSITIVEEXPERIENCES WHICH ENABLE CHILDREN TO PROGRESS THROUGH THIS STAGE OF THEIR LIVESAND ON TO THE NEXT STAGE;

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

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

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 6

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

Education 6Business services 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£677k latest income
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.0 in 2021

21 from 19 in 2023
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.
0%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1133631
Status
Registered
Governing document
INCORPORATED 28/04/2008
Companies House
Company number 06535999 · Active
Contact on the register
+441793784109 · admin@thecottagenursery.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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