THE CARDIFF BLUES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1179205 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Cardiff Rugby Community Foundation

Deliver innovative and sustainable programmes on sport related themes, health, mental health, social inclusion and education. Use sport to deliver change in the community, harnessing social good, improving and increasing opportunities and empowering people to make positive life choices, irrespective of race, gender, disability, belief, sexual orientation, age or socio-economic background.

Objects

The objects of the CIO are, for the benefit of the public in the geographical area of the Cardiff Rugby Region the:(a) promotion of community participation in amateur sport;(b) promotion of healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for sports, recreation and/or leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants ; (c) advancement of education of children and young people and in particular in relation to sport and physical activities; and(d) relief of persons in need who fall within the definition of Potential Beneficiaries below by the provision of grants, resources, equipment, or other support for their personal needs and/or for the advancement of training and education of such Potential Beneficiaries. “Potential Beneficiaries” means individuals who have been players or staff at a rugby club within the geographic area of the Cardiff Rugby Region (including Cardiff Rugby) and are in need as a result of an injury playing rugby, other physical or mental illness or disability, old age or poverty.

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 · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 small surplus of £705 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £404,377 against expenditure of £403,672. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £121,267, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain activities for three to six months in the event of a funding drop. The charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 30/06/2023 (received 01/05/2024, 1 day after the 30/04/2024 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAY MARTINchair
• Ceri Louise Maund
• Dr Marlene Davies MSc, PhD
• James Stephen Scorey
• Joseph Edmund Oliver Purcell
• Tomos George Llewellyn Shanklin

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Merthyr Tydfil · Powys · Rhondda Cynon Taff · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• SKY BLUES IN THE COMMUNITY income £1.7m
• CAMBRIDGE SPORTS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION income £202k
• BRADFORD CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £987k
• MACCLESFIELD FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST LTD income £186k
• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k

Side by side with its peers

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