DINGLEY FAMILY AND SPECIALIST EARLY YEARS CENTRES

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  +60.9%

  £1,576,090 → £2,535,330

• Cash

  +54.7%

  £203,797 → £315,298

  highest in 4 filed years

• Net assets

  +76.7%

  £218,372 → £385,910

• Employees

  +25%

  12 → 15

• Operating profit

  +777.3%

  -£24,737 → £167,538

• Wages

  +37.3%

  £1,049,901 → £1,441,698

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Crowe U.K. LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Our performance in recent years, even those years which resulted in an operating deficit, has always left us at the end of the year with a good cash base, a Reserves Fund to cover a managed wind-down in the event of collapse in funding (or other event resulting in forced closure), sufficient funding in all other restricted funds to cover asset values and liabilities and additional unrestricted funds to develop the charity and its services. We firmly believe that our strong governance and management make a compelling case for Dingley's Promise to be considered a Going Concern.”

Significant events

• “During the year, three new centres were opened. Opening new centres is the most effective method of extending the Dingley impact to more children and families, and opening these three new sites, fully funded by local authorities, has been a clear demonstration of the charity's strategy in action.”
• “Our lobbying this year has seen increased activity linking with the new Government and new MPs across the country. We are focusing on building a group of backbench MPs who will raise early years SEND in parliament and running parent roundtables in partnership with Luke Murphy MP to further raise the voice of parents.”
• “Our training initiative continues to be central to our overall strategy, as it provides a way of capturing the deep expertise built in centres over several decades and putting this to work through large numbers of early years educators in mainstream settings across the country. Over 10000 practitioners accessed Dingley training during the year, 7312 of which have already completed their courses, and the impact of the training led to the creation of 34702 new places in mainstream settings for children with SEND.”
• “Finally, 2024/25 has also seen a continued strengthening of the Board of Trustees. The strong team has been further supplemented by the appointment of Marwa Farouq, a specialist in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
• “For the year ending 31st March 25, transfers have been made to the value of £38,283 from general unrestricted funds comprising of revenue from undesignated donations, grants, consultancy and training course sales to cover deficits on operational centre funds.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.