Valleys Kids

Valleys Kids is established as a community development organization working in some of the most deprived communities in the South Wales Valleys. Through working with communities and providing activities including play, youth, arts, training, etc help people to achieve their potential.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: South Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,359,995 and spent £1,639,847.

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 26%, from £1,846,987 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,359,995 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 121% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

22% of its income in the year to 31 March 2022 came from government grants and contracts (£486,706).

Largest funder

Arts Council of Wales gave £216,420 in the year to 31 March 2025, 16% 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 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: £77,325 from 4 contracts.

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 31 March 2025, the charity named 18 funders who gave £646,457 between them. £355,302 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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 38 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £4,269,581.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 2 February 2026, Rhondda Cynon Taf

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Overview and Scrutiny Committee Child Poverty Working Group Report

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• 9 April 2025, Rhondda Cynon Taf

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Inclusion Scrutiny Committee

  COMMUNITY FOCUSED SCHOOLS - FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN LEARNING

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 20 June 2024

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec Education

  Purpose: Members of Valleys Kids youth provision.

  Members of Valleys Kids youth provision

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• 20 June 2024

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: First Minister

  Purpose: Valleys Kids.

  Valleys Kids

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• 30 November 2022

  Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd

  …more local organisations and projects, particularly those benefitting children and young people or linked to improving access to the arts, like Valleys Kids. Seventieth birthday celebrations for The Mousetrap will include its Broadway debut and a tour around the UK, including performances in Cardiff…

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• 28 June 2022

  Named by Buffy Williams in the Senedd

  …, some like YEPS, run by the local authority, and others in the third and voluntary sector, like Tylorstown Minis and Juniors, Rhondda Netball, Valleys Kids, and the Arts Factory in my constituency. Knowing the difference the Summer of Fun made to the lives of children and young people in Rhondda la…

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• 4 May 2022

  Named by Buffy Williams in the Senedd

  …ly lucky in Wales to have such a diverse range of services and support provided by the third sector. In Rhondda alone we have Rhondda veterans, Valleys Kids, Men's Sheds, the Arts Factory and RCT Women's Aid, amongst hundreds of others. Since becoming the Senedd Member, I've had the opportunity to v…

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Phillip EvansChairAppointed 12 July 2018
• Ceri AssirattiAppointed 16 January 2012
• Dr RHIANNON HOWELLS
• Jason CamilleriAppointed 5 February 2021
• Lyn Watcyn EvansAppointed 7 November 2019
• Marion Stokes
• Nadine HussienAppointed 2 July 2018

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

1074840

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 March 1999

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 2 FEBRUARY 1999

Company number

03717865This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.valleyskids.orgAs 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 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 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: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• 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