CYNNAL CYMRU - SUSTAIN WALES

Registered charity 1158496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cynnal Cymru ? Sustain Wales is the leading organisation for Sustainable Development in Wales. Our mission is to make Wales a low carbon, resource efficient, healthy, just and prosperous society, thriving in balance with the natural ecosystems that support it.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: I. THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES; II. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED; III. THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION. IV. THE ADVANCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

Per the provided text, the accounts have been independently audited by Bevan Buckland LLP for the year ended 31 March 2025. The auditor's report confirms that procedures were undertaken to assess compliance with laws and regulations and to identify risks of material misstatement, indicating a standard audit process was completed without noted material uncertainties in this excerpt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. 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 handling
• 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 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

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 04622047

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.

• REES, Catrin Lowri — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• BAIN, Stuart Mark — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• TURKOGLU, Sinem Sera — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• O'CONNELL-BHATIA, Namrata Deepak — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• KIRKPATRICK, Susan Lesley — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• MATTHEWS, Ben David — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• HAGENDYK, Nicola Louise — director, appointed 22/04/2024not on trustee list
• SUDARSAN, Nirushan — director, appointed 24/07/2023on trustee list
• MORGAN, Edward — director, appointed 09/11/2021on trustee list
• SAIN-LEY-BERRY, Clare Francoise — secretary, appointed 24/04/2019

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Matthews
• Catrin Lowri Rees
• Edward Morgan
• Lesley Kirkpatrick
• Namrata O'Connell-Bhatia
• Nicky Hagendyk
• Nirushan Sudarsan · trustee of 6 other charities
• Sera Turkoglu
• Stuart Bain · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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