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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HESWALL DISABLED CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY FUND.

• HESWALL DISABLED CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY FUND income £108k
• WELLCHILD income £1.9m
• THE CHILDREN'S CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA GROUP income £5.5m
• CAMP SIMCHA income £4.4m
• RIDE TO THE WALL income £173k
• LENNOX CHILDRENS CANCER FUND income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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