Overton Playcentre

Overton Playcentre CIO provide full day childcare to children aged 18 months -12 years old in the village of Overton-on Dee and the surrounding area. The childcare we offer includes a sessional playgroup, Funded Early Education, before and after school club and holiday club. We are also registered as providers of the Childcare Offer for Wales.

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

In Wales

• Wrexham

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £212,825 and spent £197,570.

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 59%, from £133,975 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £212,825 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

56% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£118,165).

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 August 2025: £20,408 from 3 grants. Government contracts: £97,757 from 3 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £5,000, awarded in 2020.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Claire MorrisAppointed 30 January 2018
• Lianne EvansAppointed 27 June 2024
• Lucy MatthewsAppointed 27 June 2024
• Virginia HollandAppointed 27 June 2024

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

1182019

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 February 2019

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 13 Feb 2019

Website

overtonplaycentre.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• 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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