UMBRELLA CYMRU

Registered charity 1160909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UMBRELLA GWENT

GENDER AND SEXUAL DIVERSITY, EQUALITY AND INCLUSION SPECIALIST SUPPORT SERVICE IN WALES.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:(1) TO ADVANCE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR, FOSTER GOOD RELATIONSBETWEEN, AND ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION EXPERIENCED BY,PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS/WITH A ?MINORITY CHARACTERISTIC? INRELATION TO THE PROTECTED CHARACTERISTICS OF ?SEXUALORIENTATION? AND ?GENDER REASSIGNMENT? AS DESCRIBED IN THEEQUALITY ACT (2010) BY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO:(A) PROVIDING INFORMATION, TRAINING AND OTHER SERVICES ASTHE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, TO ANYONE (EITHER IN A PERSONAL ORPROFESSIONAL CAPACITY) WHO LIVES, WORKS, OR HASCONNECTIONS WITHIN WALES.(B) ADVANCING PUBLIC EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF SEXUALORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY EQUALITY.(C) DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF ?THE COMMUNITY?INSOFAR AS THEIR SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED STATUS, IN SUCH AWAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELPMEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY INSOCIETY.(D) PERFORMING OR PROMOTING OTHER ACTIVITIES AS THETRUSTEES SEE FIT IN PURSUANCE OF THE CIO?S PURPOSE.

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

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial position is good at the end of the period, with unrestricted reserves totaling £70,277. The charity received unrestricted training income of £134,950 and restricted grant funding of £89,950, while total payments amounted to £236,382. The trustees confirmed there are no uncertainties regarding the charity continuing as a going concern.

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
• 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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Welsh Gender Service — “The Welsh Gender service has decided to no longer fund Umbrella Cymru (or any other organisation) to deliver support to patients.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR NICK LEWIS MSCchair
• Heather Amy Powell
• Johanna Robinson
• Richard Henry Miles Thorne

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST UMBRELLA CHARITY.

• WYE VALLEY NHS TRUST UMBRELLA CHARITY income £566k
• CARDIFF WALES LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER MARDI GRAS income £698k
• WAY UK income £210k
• UNION OF WELSH INDEPENDENTS INCORPORATED income £674k
• WYCLIF INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £618k
• ROYAL GLAMORGAN POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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