International Play Association

IPA is an international non-governmental organisation originally founded in 1961. It provides a forum for exchange and action across disciplines and across sectors. IPA's purpose is to protect, preserve and promote the child's right to play as a fundamental human right.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Denmark
• Germany
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Russia
• Turkey
• Spain
• Sweden
• United States
• Austria
• Belgium
• China
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• India
• Israel
• Italy
• Liberia
• Mexico
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Ireland
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• Taiwan

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £8,772 and spent £6,324.

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 12%, from £10,014 in the year to 31 December 2022 to £8,772 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 72% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 4 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 December 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Robyn Jane Monro MillerChairAppointed 14 September 2021
• Dr Sudeshna ChatterjeeAppointed 14 September 2021
• Dr Victor Hing Yeung KoongAppointed 8 June 2023
• Mike GreenawayAppointed 14 September 2021
• Sven Krister Stanley SvenssonAppointed 8 June 2023
• Tam BaillieAppointed 14 September 2021

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

Of the last 4 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

1195848

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 September 2021

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 20 Sep 2021 as amended on 04 Apr 2022

Website

ipaworld.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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