RECOVERY CYMRU COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1154530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RECOVERY CYMRU

RECOVERY COMMUNITYRECOVERY CENTRESSELF-HELP, PEER SUPPORT, ADVICE AND FRIENDSHIPPOSITIVE AND MEANINGFUL WAYS IN WHICH TO SPEND TIMENEW SKILLS, HOBBIES AND COMMUNITY NETWORKS RELAPSE PREVENTION/MANAGEMENTAWARENESS RAISING, ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY BUILDINGVOLUNTEERINGPEER-LED AFTERCARE TRAINING & RESOURCESFUNDRAISING & SOCIAL ENTERPRISEADVISORY SERVICES

Objects

THE RELIEF OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SICKNESS OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND ALCOHOL, IN CARDIFF AND THE VALE OF GLAMORGAN, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF RECOVERY SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES.

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 · 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 reported a net income of £5,612 for the year, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £279,096. The trustees acknowledge difficulties in securing additional funding and have allocated £100,000 from reserves to cover a deficit budget for the upcoming period. The charity maintains unrestricted free reserves of £255,000, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' running costs for community projects.

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
• 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
• 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (07/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GAIL SMITHchair
• Dominic Houlihan
• Dr Amanda-Jane Oliver
• Louisa Turner
• Ruth Saunders · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Underhill
• Stephen Bayley
• Susan Boxall

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Rhondda Cynon Taff · Vale Of Glamorgan

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 COMMUNITY DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY SERVICES.

• COMMUNITY DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY SERVICES income £1.3m
• RUBERY COMMUNITY AND LEISURE CENTRE LTD income £29k
• PROMO - CYMRU income £1.9m
• BETTER WAY RECOVERY income £566k
• RECOVERY PARTNERS LIMITED income £84k
• CONCERN CYMRU income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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