GROUNDWORK CAERPHILLY

Registered charity 1006811 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISLWYN AND RHYMNEY VALLEY GROUNDWORK TRUST, ISLWYN GROUNDWORK TRUST

Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to help improve the quality of people's lives, their prospects and potential and the places where they live, work and play. Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FIRSTLY THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE. TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS AND OF BETTER WAYS OF BETTER CONSERVING PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE SAME.

Area of benefit: ISLWYN

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource deficit of £46,462 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £333,680 to £287,218. The trustees have agreed a reserves policy target of holding three months of operating costs, approximately £98,000, to manage financial risks and timing differences in funding. At year-end, unrestricted reserves excluding designated funds were £136,619, which is above the stated policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phil Fiander OBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• COLIN MANN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Natalie Rees

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Caerphilly · Cardiff · Merthyr Tydfil · Monmouthshire · Newport City · Torfaen

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS.

• THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS income £48.7m
• GROUNDWORK WALES income £1.4m
• GROUNDWORK EAST income £2.3m
• GROUNDWORK CHESHIRE LANCASHIRE & MERSEYSIDE income £6.9m
• GROUNDWORK NORTH WALES income £2.9m
• GROUNDWORK GREATER MANCHESTER income £8.0m

Side by side with its peers

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