The Toy Bank

The Toy Bank is a non-profit organisation, established in 2011 that works primarily in the domain of Education. Its primary office is in New Delhi, Delhi.

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  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    New Delhi, Delhi

  • Since

    2011

Toy Bank aims to provide underprivileged children with the Right to Play and restore their childhood by engaging them with educational toys and storyb Read moreooks for holistic development. Its mission is to bridge the gap between privileged and underprivileged children while promoting values of sharing and caring. The Toy Bank, supported by The Toy Bank Charitable Trust and Vaish Aggarwal Educational Society, recognizes the importance of play in a child's growth and emotional well-being. It provides access to both educational and leisure toys, ensuring that the child's Right to Play is respected. The organisation collects toys through collection centres, school drives, and corporate collaborations, renovates and repackages them into age-graded toy kits, and distributes them to rural and tribal areas across 26 states and 4 Union Territories in India.

Demographies Served

Impact

The Toybank Charitable Trust has positively impacted the lives of 5,29,201 children, distributing 15,42,444 toys, and saving 386,500.3 pounds of CO2 emissions across 26 states and 4 union territories.

Vision & Mission

Mission - The Toy Bank envisages a society where the underprivileged children have the Right to Play and get their childhood back by actively involving them in educative toys and story books in order to help them gain an active and enriching life

Vision- To enable every underprivileged child an opportunity to have holistic development through toys, games and story books

To bridge the gap between the privileged and underprivileged children by instilling values of sharing and caring in each child

Donor History

ONGC, HDFC Capital Advisor, SBI Foundation, Keeping up With the Baby, Give India

Programs

  • Safe playroom Program

    District
    State

    The Toy Bank establishes Safe Playrooms in Municipal Schools of Delhi for economically weaker section children. These playrooms are equipped with child-friendly infrastructure, including furniture, toys, board games, and other educational materials. With over 100 varieties of age-appropriate toys and games, the playrooms enable children to engage in free play and recreational activities. The focus is on providing learning through play, as it supports the development of social, cognitive, physical, language, numeracy, environmental awareness, life skills, and emotional well-being.

  • Reach and Teach Program

    District
    State

    To mitigate the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown on underprivileged children in India, The Toy Bank has launched the "Reach and Teach Programme" in Municipal schools of Delhi. The programme aims to provide activity-based learning kits and toys to increase access to learning aids at home. Additionally, daily e-learning activity worksheets, virtual guiding videos, and audios explaining concepts and activities are shared with students from first to fifth grade. The e-learning classes are designed to be flexible and accessible to students with phones or other electronic devices. The programme focuses on strengthening existing knowledge, promoting emotional stability during the lockdown, reducing dropout rates, and providing equal opportunities for recreational activities.

  • Anganwadi Toy Connect Program

    The first six years of a child's life have been recognised as the most critical ones for optimal development. Since the process of human development is essentially cumulative in nature, investment in programmes for the youngest children in the range of 0-6 years has begun to be accepted as the very foundation for basic education and lifelong learning and development. Over the years, the field of childcare, inspired by research and front-line experiences, has developed into a coherent vision for Early Childhood Care And Education. The Toy Libraries aims to increase the access of toys, storybooks, board games, rattle toys, educational toys and much more. Different variety of toys will involve the children in physical and mental exercise. It concentrates on providing holistic childhood development through toys and board games. Since during these years, a child develops social, cognitive, physical and emotional skills that form the foundation needed to have a healthy future. The Toy Bank also aims to strengthen the capacities of the Anganwadis staff by creating "20 Activity Modules" which will be used by the Anganwadi centres. These Activity Modules are carefully mapped and provide specific guidance to Anganwadi staff in selecting the appropriate toy or play material to deliver learning through PLAY. These multi-purpose modules will incorporate basic numeracy, language, environment and others into the children's structured play sessions to enhance the holistic development of a child through toys. By working on all the domains such as sensory, fine and gross motor skills, social, emotional, language, teamwork and much more to have social and emotional well being.

Impact Metrics

  • Total Number of Children Impacted

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2017-18 16924
    • 2018-19 518598
    • 2019-20 529201
    • 2020-21 530132
    • 2021-22 521682
  • Total Number of Toy Libraries Created

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2017-18 533
    • 2018-19 5160
    • 2019-20 5355
    • 2020-21 5382
    • 2021-22 5404
  • Equal Opportunities to Play

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Learning Level of the Students- Language, Numeracy, Environmental Awareness and Life Skills

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Increase in Attendance

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Availability of Toy/Play Materials and Educational Aids

    Year-wise Metrics
  • Improvement in the Skills of the Children

    Year-wise Metrics

Theory of Change

The Toy Bank addresses the unsung Article 31 (UN Convention on the Rights of a child) states that “That every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts”. The children living in vulnerable circumstances in India do not have any access to toys, storybooks and educational equipment which is a very essential part in a child’s holistic development.
Moreover, government departments in India have not been able to include Article 31 entirely in the school system. Moreover, addressing 'quality' aspects of primary schools has not yet received the required attention, while the focus continues to remain largely on 'achieving quantitative target figures'. The balance between quality and quantity is more precarious than ever. Further, In India Toy Industry, 10 per cent of the toys are from the organized sector and the remaining 90 per cent from the unregulated sources, mostly plastic. A child from affluent areas often gets bored with the old toys after playing numerous times with it and wants to have a new set of toys. For old plastic toys landfills will soon be their home. Therefore, increase in carbon emission. Lastly, on one hand there are huge underutilized toys and educational aids in the hands of privileged children which are unable to reach the underprivileged.

Leadership Team

  • Vidyun Goel

    Director/Trustee

  • Tarun Khurrana

    Trustee

  • Siddhant Goel

    Secretary

  • Vaishali Chauhan

    Field Coordinator

  • Niharika Agarwal

    Project Manager

  • Pratibha Yadav

    Senior Field Coordinator

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    6-20

  • Strength of Governing Body

    3

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    Yes

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    Yes

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    Yes

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Organisation Structure

Organisation Structure

Yes

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AACTT0720C

  • Registration ID

    No. 813 in Book 4 Vol. 3,007 on pages 11 to 19 dated 28/02/2012

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    DL/2018/0199054

  • 12A

    AACTT0720CE20214

  • 80G

    AACTT0720CF20214

  • FCRA

    231661847

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00005512

Location

  • Headquarters

    Unit F7, First Floor, Ambika Vihar, CSC, New Delhi, 110087

    Directions

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses
  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.2,211,958
    Expenses
    Rs.2,211,957
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.376,032
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,835,925
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