OVER THE WALL CAMP

Registered charity 1075361 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OVER THE WALL · also registered in Scotland as SC043191 (OSCR)

Over The Wall supports seriously ill children and young people throughout the UK providing residential activity camps in a range of locations to create life-changing experiences. Our objective is to relieve sickness, suffering and distress in seriously ill children and young people by providing therapeutic and educational recreation for them, their siblings and family.

Objects

TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN THE PROMOTION OF THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS IN SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING THERAPEUTIC RECREATION FOR THEM, THEIR SIBLINGS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Erewash, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £420,609, driven by a capital surplus of £621,016 which offset an operating deficit of £200,407. Per the trustees' report, free operating reserves were £278,530 at year-end, which is below the stated policy target of three months' budgeted expenditure, though the trustees expect reserves to rebuild from 2026 onwards.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Over The Wall Camp (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kevin Mathieson — Chief Executive (source)
• Joe Cronly — Chairman (source)
• Shea Donovan — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Caroline Talboys — Director of Finance (source)
• Anna Wall-Budden — Director of Fundraising (source)
• Emma Graver — Director of Marketing and Communications (source)
• Gail Allsopp — Clinical Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• GSK — “We enjoy support and mutually beneficial partnerships with companies including GSK, Hasbro and Abercrombie & Fitch.” (source page)
• Hasbro — “We enjoy support and mutually beneficial partnerships with companies including GSK, Hasbro and Abercrombie & Fitch.” (source page)
• Abercrombie & Fitch — “We enjoy support and mutually beneficial partnerships with companies including GSK, Hasbro and Abercrombie & Fitch.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 22.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSEPH HENRY CRONLYchair
• Alma Lawrie
• Andrew Brynmor Richards
• Catherine Wales
• Craig Berens
• Cynthia Verna Muyambuki Davis
• DAVID HENRY WILLIAMS
• DUNCAN KING
• JOCELYN SHARP
• JONATHAN GORING
• John Henry Bremridge
• Mark Fidler · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD CHAPMAN
• Sebastian Stachowiak
• Zachary Boulden

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• OVER KELLET PLAYGROUP income £144k
• THE TOWER PROJECT income £4.7m
• CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
• BEYOND THE WALL income £238k
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• THE PARENTING PROJECT income £566k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.