THE SWANSEA BAY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1201171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Swansea Bay Foundation aims to strengthen local places and improve lives, by providing grants and donations to groups and good causes that make a real difference to people across the Swansea Bay Area which covers Neath-Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Pembrokeshire.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT IN THE AREA OF SWANSEA

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £12,949 at the end of the period, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover fixed costs for a 12-month period. The charity's financial position is noted to be dependent on the goodwill of donors, with the principal risk identified being that donors no longer wish to fund it. No audit was required as the charity is entitled to exemption under the small companies regime.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 21/03/2025, 49 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alys Francis-Hughes
• Dawn Muriel Lyle
• Louise Elisabeth Short
• Nicholas David Gallivan
• Paul Relf · trustee of 3 other charities
• Zoe Ann Antrobus · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot · Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Swansea Bay University LHB Charitable Fund and Other Related Charities.

• Swansea Bay University LHB Charitable Fund and Other Related Charities income £1.4m
• CARE AND REPAIR WESTERN BAY income £3.4m
• SWANSEA COMMUNITY BOAT TRUST income £105k
• Swansea City AFC Foundation income £1.5m
• SWANSEA AND BRECON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY income £2.3m
• THE BAY TRUST income £274k

Side by side with its peers

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