CARMARTHENSHIRE PEOPLE FIRST

Registered charity 1126539 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Carmarthenshire People First is a training and advocacy organisation for adults with Learning Disabilities

Objects

TO RELIEVE, REPRESENT AND SUPPORT THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN THE COUNTY OF CARMARTHENSHIRE AND OTHER COUNTIES ACROSS WALES BY PROVIDING ADVOCACY SUPPORT AND TRAINING WHICH WILL ENABLE PEOPLE TO OBTAIN THEIR FULL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS CITIZENS.?TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNING DISABILITIES THROUGH TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND PROMINENT SOCIAL PRESENCE.TO ENHANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE LEARNING DISABILITIES

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: Education/training · Disability · 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 reported a net surplus of £14,525 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £76,325. However, the unrestricted funds are in a deficit position of £147,201, which is offset by restricted funds of £223,526. The trustees confirm the accounts 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 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 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/02/2024, 29 days after the 31/01/2024 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 · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Oliver Ricechair
• Angela Elizabeth Edwards
• Malcolm John Cansdale
• Nigel James Miller
• Ruth Louise McDougall

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PEOPLE FIRST LTD.

• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE PEOPLE FIRST LTD income £79k
• PEMBROKESHIRE PEOPLE FIRST income £719k
• CARDIFF PEOPLE FIRST income £193k
• CAERPHILLY PEOPLE FIRST income £84k
• CAMDEN PEOPLE FIRST income £81k
• MANCHESTER PEOPLE FIRST income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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