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Charity Summary

This is the charity information for: Lower Hutt Playcentre.

Charity Details

Deregistration details

Lower Hutt Playcentre
CC30783
N/A
Deregistered
19/12/2025

Financial information at the time of Deregistration:

$0
$0

Below are details of Lower Hutt Playcentre at the date of deregistration:

Lower Hutt Playcentre
CC30783
N/A
Deregistered

Registration details

30/06/2008
August 31

Registration history

Registration Action Date effective Reason
De-registered 19/12/2025 The charity is consolidating and deregistering the local branches or similar entities. The national or parent body will continue to be a registered charity
Registered 30/06/2008
Playcentre Aotearoa

Address for service

Glen Iris Grove
Lower Hutt

Charity's other details

lowerhutt@playcentre.org.nz


Organisation with a focus on the following communities:

N/A

https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC30783

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 Services

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

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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.

Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name Position Effective Date
Janis Clifford Co- President 17/11/2024
Lauren Sims Co-President 17/11/2024
Zoe Carmichael Secretary 1/08/2024
John Nicholas McGlynn Treasurer 17/09/2023

Past Officers

Officer Name Position Past Since
Kim Chin Co-President 17/11/2024
Shelae Mary Skinner Co-President 17/11/2024
Tania Lilian Walker Secretary 31/07/2024
Liz Markham Member 16/09/2023
Mark Yeoman Treasurer 16/09/2023
Samantha Gallacher Secretary 16/09/2023
Bridget Ross Member 16/10/2022
Kate Stevens Secretary 6/09/2022
Lisa May Treasurer 28/02/2021
Theresa Cooper Co-President 25/09/2020
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Charity Updates

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17/11/2024 NOC031
4/10/2023 NOC030
4/10/2023 NOC029
18/10/2022 NOC028
28/09/2021 NOC027
28/09/2021 NOC026
24/09/2020 NOC025
24/09/2020 NOC024
30/10/2019 NOC023
20/11/2017 NOC020
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