CARE AND REPAIR WESTERN BAY

Registered charity 1171877 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Objects of the Charity are, to relieve the needs of people living in the areas of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot who are disadvantaged by reason of age, ill-health or disability, by the provision of support, assistance, facilities, amenities and services to such people in respect of their housing and surrounding environment

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREAS OF SWANSEA AND NEATH PORT TALBOT WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH OR DISABILITY, BY THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ASSISTANCE, FACILITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES TO SUCH PEOPLE IN RESPECT OF THEIR HOUSING AND SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT.

Area of benefit: SWANSEA AND NEATH PORT TALBOT

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £150,578 and unrestricted reserves of £1,159,097 as of 31 March 2026. The trustees consider the state of affairs to be satisfactory and have confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity holds a defined benefit pension scheme deficit of £94,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland Audit Ltd. Discloses 6 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
• 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 03/05/2024, 93 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Jones — Chief Executive (source)
• Faye Patton — Head of Policy and Insights (source)
• Jack Bentley — Head of Business Development (source)
• Adrian Lister — Corporate Services Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Welsh Government — “Without the support and funding of our partners our work would not be possible. Together we are improving homes and changing lives. Welsh Go…” (source page)
• Gas Safe Charity — “Hardship Fund Partners Gas Safe Charity” (source page)
• Energy Saving Trust — “Project Partners Energy Saving Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHANNA HALL DAVIESchair
• Benjamin Hinchey
• Beverley Simmonds Owen
• CHRISTOPHER JONES
• Darren Williams
• David William Tovey
• Linda Adair Whittaker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Bennett
• ROBERT IAN DAVIES

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLAENAU GWENT AND CAERPHILLY CARE & REPAIR.

• BLAENAU GWENT AND CAERPHILLY CARE & REPAIR income £1.3m
• THE SWANSEA BAY FOUNDATION income £65k
• WALLICH-CLIFFORD COMMUNITY income £20.7m
• WATERBEACH UNITED CHARITIES income £30k
• EAST AND WEST AID income £39k
• NEWPORT CAB income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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