PLAY WALES/CHWARAE CYMRU

Registered charity 1068926 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q67914071

Play Wales is a charity that provides advice and guidance for all in Wales who have a responsibility for any environment where children and young people play. Play Wales upholds children's right to play and believes that freely chosen play is critical to human development. Play Wales works strategically to ensure that children have access to quality play provison in their communities.

Objects

The objects of the charity are, for the benefit of the public:(a) To provide and assist in the provision of facilities and services for play, recreation, education and other leisure-time occupation for all children throughout the world, including in Wales.(b) The advancement of the education of the general public in relation to play, recreation, education and other leisure-time occupation for children through but not limited to the provision of resources, support, training and information.

Area of benefit: WALES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted deficit of £43,132 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains reliant on core funding from the Welsh Government, which has been secured until March 2026. Free reserves were £311,006, which falls within the stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to six to twelve months of annual expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Tawil
• Dr ELSPETH Clark
• Dr Jacky Helen Tyrie
• Dr Matluba Khan
• Dr Rhian Chamberlain
• Dr Rhian Mari Barrance
• Hana Hersi
• Keith Towler
• PROFESSOR RONAN LYONS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRELEWIS PLAYGROUP.

• TRELEWIS PLAYGROUP income £145k
• PLAY RADNOR / CHWARAE MAESYFED income £126k
• PLAY GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £449k
• PLAYSKILL income £630k
• PLAYWAM PRESCHOOL income £171k
• CHILDREN IN WALES-PLANT YNG NGHYMRU income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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