The Playthings Past Museum Trust

The museum of childhood is located at the National Trust property of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire and this is where the trust promotes and maintains its collectable objects.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Derbyshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £113 and spent £0.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 99%, from £15,000 in the year to 5 April 2021 to £113 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 0% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

1 trustee runs the charity.

• Mrs Tina BenfieldChair

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

507578

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 May 1978

Governing document

TRUST DEED DATED 15TH FEBRUARY 1978

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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