ABACUS PLAYGROUNDS LTD
What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.
What is held for this supplier
At least £527,034 across 20 councils since 2015/16
This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".
- Canonical id
- abacus-playgrounds
- Councils that published a payment
- 20
- Payments published
- 56
- Latest year held
- 2025/26
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2015/16 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannock Chase | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,995 | n/a | £1,995 | 1 |
| Durham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £46k | n/a | £46k | 3 |
| East Hampshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,559 | £3,559 | 2 |
| Fylde | n/a | n/a | n/a | £32k | £74k | n/a | £13k | n/a | £119k | 7 |
| Gloucester | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £12k | £12k | 1 |
| Hinckley & Bosworth | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,502 | £13k | £17k | 3 |
| Horsham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,253 | £3,253 | 1 |
| Lancaster | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £70k | £70k | 3 |
| Milton Keynes | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £31k | £31k | 4 |
| North Northamptonshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £34k | n/a | £34k | 1 |
| Oadby & Wigston | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,600 | n/a | £1,600 | 1 |
| Reading | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £18k | n/a | £18k | 1 |
| Sandwell | n/a | £49k | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £49k | 5 |
| Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £7,679 | n/a | n/a | £7,679 | 2 |
| South Derbyshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £25k | £6,964 | £32k | 6 |
| South Oxfordshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £748 | £748 | 1 |
| St Albans | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £9,611 | n/a | £9,611 | 1 |
| Wakefield | n/a | £9,446 | £12k | £25k | £12k | £3,625 | n/a | n/a | £62k | 11 |
| Walsall | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £4,195 | n/a | n/a | £4,195 | 1 |
| Warwickshire | £2,870 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £2,870 | 1 |
These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.
The largest payments published
| Council | Date | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster | 16 Apr 2025 | £41,597 | Capital Payments To Contractors |
| Fylde | 15 Jun 2022 | £41,268 | FIXED ASSETS - CONST/CONVER/RENOV COSTS |
| Durham | 22 Nov 2024 | £34,519 | Third Party Payments |
| North Northamptonshire | 17 Apr 2024 | £34,028 | New Construction, Conversion and Renovation |
| Sandwell | 1 Oct 2019 | £27,927 | Housing Revenue Account Capital |
| Lancaster | 15 May 2025 | £25,578 | Playground Improvements |
| Fylde | 30 Mar 2022 | £25,018 | FIXED ASSETS - CONST/CONVER/RENOV COSTS |
| Fylde | 27 Apr 2022 | £24,674 | FIXED ASSETS - CONST/CONVER/RENOV COSTS |
| Milton Keynes | 28 Jan 2026 | £20,818 | Buildings - Externals |
| Reading | 16 May 2024 | £17,770 | Capital - |
| Wakefield | 22 Jul 2021 | £17,552 | Grants |
| Sandwell | 1 Apr 2019 | £13,985 | Neighbourhoods |
| Fylde | 11 Dec 2024 | £13,000 | FIXED ASSETS - CONST/CONVER/RENOV COSTS |
| Gloucester | 29 Sept 2025 | £12,442 | RWH VC play area flood damage and repair As per quote - 073693 and site visit 14/08/25 Supply and install 135sqm of 35mm pile artificial play grass in addition |
| Milton Keynes | 23 Mar 2026 | £12,289 | Buildings - Externals |
| South Derbyshire | 31 Jul 2024 | £10,518 | R & M of Fix & Fit - General |
| Milton Keynes | 10 Dec 2025 | £10,420 | Buildings - Externals |
| Durham | 27 Sept 2024 | £10,183 | Third Party Payments |
| St Albans | 14 Jun 2024 | £9,611 | Play Areas |
| Hinckley & Bosworth | 30 Apr 2025 | £9,000 | Construction |
A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.
Which councils and years contributed
Covers 20 councils and 8 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2015/16, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26.
Councils that contributed: Cannock Chase, Durham, East Hampshire, Fylde, Gloucester, Hinckley & Bosworth, Horsham, Lancaster, Milton Keynes, North Northamptonshire, Oadby & Wigston, Reading, Sandwell, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, South Derbyshire, South Oxfordshire, St Albans, Wakefield, Walsall, Warwickshire.
A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.
The council pages behind these figures
Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.
- Cannock Chase spending
- Durham spending
- East Hampshire spending
- Fylde spending
- Gloucester spending
- Hinckley & Bosworth spending
- Horsham spending
- Lancaster spending
- Milton Keynes spending
- North Northamptonshire spending
- Oadby & Wigston spending
- Reading spending
- Sandwell spending
- Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council spending
- South Derbyshire spending
- South Oxfordshire spending
- St Albans spending
- Wakefield spending
- Walsall spending
- Warwickshire spending
- Every public body on this site
- Money moving between public bodies
How this page was built
A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.
Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.
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