INSTITUTE OF WELSH AFFAIRS

Registered charity 1078435 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3309454 · Wikipedia · also known as IWA

The Institute of Welsh Affairs is a membership-based think-tank and policy research institute aimed at promoting new thinking on Welsh issues. Its activities include the publication of research reports and discussion papers, and the organisation of seminars and conferences throughout Wales covering a range of interests, including the economy, education, health, and the environment.

Objects

2.1 The Objects of the Charity are to advance the education of the general public of, and to promote research into (and the publication of the results thereof), socio-economics, politics, science and technology, including but not limited to:-(a) the effect of socio-economic, political and scientific factors on public policy; and(b) the effect of socio-economic, financial, political, environmental and international factors on the living standards of all sections of the community.

Area of benefit: 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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a deficit of £13,876, contrasting with the anticipated deficit of £25,688. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £162,751, which is above the revised policy target of £50,000. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Books Council of Wales — “The IWA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Books Council of Wales for the welsh agenda .” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gwendolyn Helena Sterkchair
• Anthony Pickles
• Ben Gordon Joakim
• Dr Elizabeth Zaidee Haywood
• HELEN FRANCIS MORTLOCK PEARCE
• Kelly-Marie Huxley-Roberts
• Lauren Maeve McEvatt
• Shayoni Sarkar Lynn

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

• THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS income £20.2m
• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
• WELSH CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS / CANOLFAN MATERION RHYNGWLADOL CYMRU income £1.2m
• THE INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH POLICY RESEARCH income £897k
• INSTITUTE OF ALCOHOL STUDIES income £466k
• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m

Side by side with its peers

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