SOLVA CARE

Registered charity 1172878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Set up in response to wishes of the local residents, we support individuals and families with a variety of services and aim to maintain and improve health and wellbeing by:Enabling residents to stay in their own homes and remain part of the community.Offer a way to counteract loneliness, isolation and social disadvantage.Provide extra support for those who are caring for relatives.

Objects

TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF ELDERLY PEOPLE AND OTHERS WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING SPECIALLY DESIGNED SOCIAL CARE SUPPORT SERVICES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS IN PEMBROKESHIRE BUT INITIALLY CENTRED ON SOLVA AND ITS IMMEDIATE AREA.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £28,547, a significant decrease from the previous year's £160,027, following the end of its National Lottery funding. The trustees acknowledge uncertainty regarding long-term financial security and are actively seeking new grants, with current funding secured only until September 2025.

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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Solva Care (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Hywel Dda University Health Board — “Solva Care have produced – as part of a Knowledge Mobilisation Project, supported by the Public Health Department of Hywel Dda University He…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Barbara Bale
• Dr John Holland
• JONATHON CROWTHER HIGGINS
• Jan Bower
• John Graham
• Joseph Griffin
• Maggie McKenzie
• Sue Carnes Chichlowska
• Sue Denman

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

Operates in: Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).