CYMDEITHAS GWASANAETHAU GWIRFODDOL SIR GAR / CARMARTHENSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY SERVICES

Registered charity 1062144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAVS, CGGSC / CAVS, CGGSG

The County Voluntary Council (CVC) for Carmarthenshire - offering support, information and guidance to Third Sector organisations across the county as well as supporting individuals who wish to volunteer in finding appropriate voluntary placements.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ALL, OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES, OR THOSE WHICH NOW, OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED CHARITABLE BY LAW, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, THROUGH WELSH AND ENGLISH

Area of benefit: CARMARTHENSHIRE

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Carmarthenshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £195,464 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,263,542. The trustees confirm that forecasts indicate the charity will be able to meet its debts as they fall due and have no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 04/02/2026, 4 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Bowen
• Andre Samuel James McPherson
• Awen Little · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Jonathan Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leann Marie Douglas
• Louise Austin
• Meinir Anona Evans
• Peter Bernard Loughran · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CYMDEITHAS MUDIADAU GWIRFODDOL CEREDIGION / CEREDIGION ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.

• CYMDEITHAS MUDIADAU GWIRFODDOL CEREDIGION / CEREDIGION ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £922k
• COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICE BEDFORDSHIRE income £418k
• VOLUNTARY ACTION MERTHYR TYDFIL income £1.1m
• SYSTON AND DISTRICT VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £173k
• WANSBECK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £478k
• LEICESTERSHIRE VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESOURCE AGENCY income £806k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.