Bishopston Play Association

The charity provides a summer playscheme in school summer holidays.It is open access scheme for children aged 5 to 13, under 5's can attend with a responsible adult. The children participate in a range of play opportunities including den building; hammock making; fire making and cooking; art and craft activities; giant maze play both in and on it and anything else the children want to do.

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

In Wales

• City of Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £16,151 and spent £18,229.

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

Up 16%, from £13,927 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £16,151 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

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: £8,000 from 1 grant. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2011, worth at least £7,010.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Andora Wild MissAppointed 19 September 2023
• Deborah MontagueAppointed 7 June 2011
• Katherine Brigid MattinglyAppointed 5 September 2024
• Katie GreenawayAppointed 6 May 2011
• Mike GreenawayAppointed 6 May 2011
• Rosie GreenawayAppointed 11 April 2022
• Sue BradshawAppointed 6 May 2011
• Teresa De VallAppointed 13 November 2012

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, 5 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

1142286

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 June 2011

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 05/05/2011

Website

bishopstonplayscheme.wordpress.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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