MENTER CWM GWENDRAETH ELLI CYFYNGEDIG

Registered charity 1021901 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MENTER CWM GWENDRAETH CYFYNGEDIG

Support any existing Welsh community activities and promote projects that regenerate the rural community, working with existing organisations where possible.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF CWM GWENDRAETH AND OTHER REGIONS IN WALES IN THE WELSH LANGUAGE AND ITS ASSOCIATED CULTURE. B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS BEING IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, YOUTH, DISABLEMENT, POVERTY AND SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: CWM GWENDRAETH AND OTHER REGIONS IN WALES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £159,833 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £135,471 to £113,768. The trustees acknowledge the importance of cash flow and have assessed the charity's financial commitments for the following year, expressing hope to receive sufficient funding to continue activities. The pension scheme shows a surplus of £498,000, which is treated as a defined contribution scheme for accounting purposes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (39% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR IAN WYN REESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alana Enoch
• Anwen Mair Evans
• Catrin Mair Rees
• DAVID WILLIAM HUGH RICHARDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELEN DAVIES
• Euros Elis Jones
• GETHIN TOBIAS THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Williams
• Helen Angharad Humphreys
• Jeni Olwen Price
• KENNETH DENVER REES · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kathryn Devonald-Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• LINDA WILLIAMS
• Wendy Edwards

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST OF ENGLAND RURAL NETWORK.

• WEST OF ENGLAND RURAL NETWORK income £527k
• CWMNI'R FRAN WEN CYF income £1.2m
• PILLGWENLLY MILLENNIUM TRUST LIMITED income £111k
• WELSH CHURCH ACT FUND WITHIN THE AREAS OF RHONDDA CYNON TAFF, BRIDGEND AND MERTHYR TYDFIL COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCILS income £412k
• WEM TOWN HALL COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £257k
• COMMUNITY MUSIC WALES/CERDDORIAETH GYMUNEDOL CYMRU income £257k

Side by side with its peers

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