Childcare & Business Consultancy Services

Registered charity 1083895 · since 2000cbcservices.org.uk·Wandsworth·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Your work fits best if you are a voluntary or community childcare setting in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the funder's stated priority, and you work with children up to age 11 and their parents.
The annual report gives no grant range or annual total, so no typical request size can be stated, and it is worth asking the funder what would be reasonable before you set a figure.
The annual report describes a formal process through which settings can request full or partial funding for a child's placement, but the funder's listing says no application process is publicly published, so contact it directly to confirm how to apply and when it considers requests.
No exclusions are stated, and the low recorded grant-making should not stop you from enquiring, though the annual report does not show how competitive its funding is.

Overview

Childcare & Business Consultancy Services is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1083895).

Childcare & Business Consultancy Services is a charity registered in England and Wales that exists to advance the education and development of children up to and including the age of 11 and to advance parenting skills. Formerly known as Wandsworth Primary Play Association, it works with childcare settings in and around the Wandsworth area. It acts as an umbrella organisation for voluntary-run childcare, runs childcare services, a toy library service and payroll facilities for member childcare groups, and also offers childcare providers business support. The annual report does not state its annual giving or how its giving divides between its programmes.

What they fund

Priority Areas

CBCS’s charitable aims are to advance the education and development of children up to age 11 by helping parents understand and meet their children’s needs through community-based groups. It provides those groups with ongoing support, guidance and assistance, with a particular focus on inclusive opportunities for all children, regardless of race, culture, religion, disability or financial means. Its report records resource grants for centrally managed settings and a formal process through which settings can request full or partial funding for a child’s placement. CBCS also offers childcare providers business support, including advice on recruitment, employment, safeguarding and policy development.

Themes

Child education and development

Geographic Focus

Priority: London Borough of Wandsworth.

How to apply

Settings can request full or partial funding for a child’s placement through CBCS’s formal process.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Wandsworth

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Childcare & Business Consultancy Services.

Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary ServicesNo public process Sir Walter St. John's Educational CharityFixed deadlinesGave £341k Berkshire Community FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £1.1M CB PlusFixed deadlines UK Christian SchoolsNo public processGave £56,414 St Giles & St George Education charityMixed deadlinesGave £455k Clara Martineau CharityNo public processGave £250k The Neville Abraham FoundationInvitation onlyGave £599k CHK FoundationInvitation onlyGave £4.2M Emanuel School General Charitable TrustNo public processGave £422k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£1,660,082	£1,635,111	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£1,822,645	£1,818,585	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£1,978,171	£1,939,498	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£2,161,431	£2,209,211	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£2,482,681	£2,271,949	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.