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Charity Details

Alicetown Playcentre
CC30771
N/A
Registered

Registration details

30/06/2008
August 31
Playcentre Aotearoa

Address for service

105
107 Victoria Street
Alicetown
Lower Hutt
5010

Charity's other details

alicetown@playcentre.org.nz


Organisation with a focus on the following communities:

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https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC30771

Group Members

Below are all the members of Playcentre Aotearoa. Click into the individual members below to view their charity summary.

Member Charities
Alicetown Playcentre
Aorere Playcentre
Aotea Island Playcentre
Apiti Playcentre
Aramoho Playcentre
Aria Playcentre
Arohena Playcentre
Ashburton Playcentre
Ashhurst Playcentre
Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Aotearoa - Playcentre Aotearoa

Purpose & Structure

Charitable Purpose

Playcentre was instrumental in introducing the concept of education through play and through child-initiated activities to the early childhood setting in New Zealand. This philosophy has since been adopted throughout all New Zealand through the curriculum for early childhood education, Te Whāriki. The organisation believes that parents are the first and best educators of their children and children learn best when they initiate their learning through play (child-initiated play). Within the centres children and adults learn alongside each other, in agreement with the socio-cultural model of learning which posits that a child learns best when surrounded by trusted members of his or her community. Each Playcentre is a cooperative. Parents decide how their centre will run and are responsible for the education of their children. Parents also make decisions giving direction to how their association (regional body) and the NZPF (national body) will run

Note: The main sectors, activities and beneficiaries are bolded.

Provides services (e.g. care / counselling)

Education / training / research

Family / whanau

Children / young people

Entity Structure

Children 0-6 years, normally in mixed age groups, attend 1/2 day sessions run by parents - minimum of 1 adult to five children, no more than 5x a week. Parents manage all aspects of each Playcentre including the premises, administration, education of children & adults. Playcentres are chartered ECE providers with the NZ Ministry of Education. Independent research & audits by ERO confirm the quality of Playcentre's programmes

Annual Returns

Annual Returns are due within 6 months of a charity’s balance date (financial year-end), or a longer period if an extension has been granted.

Exemptions

This charity has been granted an exemption from filing an annual return by 28 February 2009 under Section 43 of the Charities Act 2005. The first annual return is due by 28 February 2010.

Please note: This charity is a member of a Group which submits Consolidated Annual Returns. To view these Annual Returns on the Group Summary click here. Any Annual Returns listed below were submitted when this charity was a single entity.

For Year Ended Due Date Date Submitted Total Income Total Expenditure Financial Statements Annual Return Summary
31/08/2024 28/02/2025 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2023 29/02/2024 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2022 28/02/2023 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2021 28/02/2022 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2020 28/02/2021 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2019 29/02/2020 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2018 28/02/2019 Member of 'Playcentre Aotearoa' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2017 28/02/2018 Member of '' group - click here to view Annual Return
31/08/2016 28/02/2017 28/02/2017 $81,274 $58,075 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
31/08/2015 29/02/2016 6/03/2016 $66,923 $55,731 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif

Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name Position Effective Date
Sapphira Connor Secretary 16/02/2024
Natalia Karacaoglu Leadership, Co-treasurer 1/09/2023
Anna May Porter Co-treasurer, Education 13/04/2023
Bre Mudge Leadership 13/04/2023
Philippa Blandford Leadership 1/11/2022
Zoe Elizabeth Gilmore Leadership 30/10/2020

Past Officers

Officer Name Position Past Since
Philippa Blandford Leadership, Secretary 16/02/2024
Kirsti Whalen-Stickley Leadership 30/11/2023
Natalia Karacaoglu Co-treasurer 31/08/2023
Anna May Porter Education 14/04/2023
Irene Monica Lavender Co-Treasurer 14/04/2023
Claire Mudge Health & Safety 13/04/2023
Emily Alexander Leadership 13/04/2023
Louise Williams Co-treasurer; Leadership 13/04/2023
Philippa Blandford Secretary 13/04/2023
Anna May Porter Education; Secretary 1/10/2021

Charity Updates

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Date Created Reference View Summary (.pdf <1MB)
28/02/2024 NOC032
31/01/2024 NOC031
14/05/2023 NOC030
1/06/2022 NOC029
31/10/2021 NOC028
26/11/2020 NOC026
1/12/2019 NOC025
8/02/2019 NOC024
18/12/2017 NOC022
11/04/2017 NOC021

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