PRIME CYMRU

Registered charity 1140129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PRIME Cymru is a registered charity dedicated to providing practical support to people aged 50 and over who want to become and remain economically active. Through our staff, trained mentors and associates we provide clients throughout Wales with tailored one to one support whether they wish to start their own business, return to the workforce or volunteer to develop skills and confidence.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT PRIMARILY IN WALES BUT NOT SOLELY RESTRICTED TO WALES, THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT, TRAINING AND VOLUNTEERING TO MATURE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH A FOCUS ON THOSE OVER THE AGE OF 50, WHO ARE NOT ENGAGED IN PAID EMPLOYMENT, ARE UNDER-EMPLOYED OR FACING REDUNDANCY WHO WOULD BENEFIT THROUGH ENHANCED INCOME, OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT IN MEANINGFUL ACTIVITY AND THE PREVENTION OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND OLDER AGE POVERTY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WALES

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

Causes: Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stand at £644,915, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £125,357 (equivalent to three months of running costs). However, the auditors have identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern beyond March 2027 due to a lack of secured future funding.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole & Co. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04187497

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — PRIME Cymru (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JONES, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 26/07/2024not on trustee list
• CURTIES, Michael — director, appointed 26/07/2024on trustee list
• O'KEEFE, Michael Ross Ian — director, appointed 26/07/2024on trustee list
• MARKS, Eleanor — director, appointed 29/01/2021on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Sian, Dr — director, appointed 09/08/2018on trustee list
• BIRTLES, Brian Charles — director, appointed 23/03/2016on trustee list
• RIDGE-EVANS, Hayley Marie — secretary, appointed 27/05/2026

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~10.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Charles Birtles
• DR Sian Phillips
• Eleanor Marks
• Fiona Jane Jones OBE
• Michael Curties · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ross O'Keefe

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 PRIME COMMITMENT LIMITED.

• PRIME COMMITMENT LIMITED income £154k
• PRIORITY YOUTH PROJECT income £367k
• CARE & REPAIR CYMRU 2015 income £2.8m
• CARTREFI CYMRU CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED income £42.9m
• AGE CYMRU POWYS income £567k
• AGE CYMRU income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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