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Registered charity · Ipswich

Ipswich Community Playbus

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £143k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Suffolk
Website
www.ipswichplaybus.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1979

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£143k£107k
  • 2024£169k£83k
  • 2023£85k£81k
Earlier years
  • 2022£47k£61k
  • 2021£77k£48k
Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR GOUP PLAY AND WHOSE PARENTS CAN PARTICIPATE WHERE APPROPRIATE. IN THE INERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE INHABITANTS OF IPSWICH SO THAT THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

5 trustees on the board

17.3y median 13y
average tenure
26y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

2
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 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5Economic/community Development/employment 4Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Education 3Retail and trade 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£143k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
278061
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 4TH JUNE 1979
Contact on the register
01473221521 · playbus@btinternet.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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