Cynon Valley P.a.l.s. Play and Leisure for Children with Disabilities

Cynon Valley PALS provides Play And Leisure Services for children with disabilities in the Cynon Valley, South Wales. We provide activities during school holidays and various trips/activities throughout the year for children aged 3-19yrs.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined in Practice Cynon Valley

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 April 2025, it had income of £50,553 and spent £35,011.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 5%, from £52,952 in the year to 30 April 2021 to £50,553 in the year to 30 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 69% of its income in the year to 30 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Awards For All gave £10,000 in the year to 30 April 2024, 20% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 30 April 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 30 April 2024, the charity named 7 funders who gave £24,570 between them. £2,000 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 7 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £61,000.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Lowri MatthewsChairAppointed 5 September 2019
• Camilla HardingAppointed 19 January 2023
• Faye MatthewsAppointed 22 September 2021
• Hannah ScobieAppointed 19 January 2023
• Kirsty SmithAppointed 19 June 2024
• Laura PainterAppointed 19 January 2023
• Lisa WalstowAppointed 30 June 2016
• Martyn VardonAppointed 18 October 2022
• Meirion TownsendAppointed 19 June 2024
• Paul ShrubbAppointed 4 June 2015
• Rebecca ShrubbAppointed 4 June 2015

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1046862

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 June 1995

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 6 OCTOBER 1994 AS AMENDED 22 MARCH 1995 AND 14 MAY 2010.

Website

www.cynonvalleypals.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda