ST. DAVID'S CHILDREN SOCIETY

Registered charity 509163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (WALES), ST DAVID'S CHILDREN SOCIETY, THE CATHOLIC CHILDREN AND FAMILY CARE SOCIETY (WALES)

Adoption agency.

Objects

3.1. The Company shall operate for the public benefit in pursuance of the following charitable purposes or objects:3.1.1 to offer relief to those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or other disadvantage primarily by working as an agency to make arrangements for the adoption and fostering of children in Wales and delivering support services to children and their families in accordance with the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and the Adoption Support Services (Wales) Regulations 2005 (as amended in 2020) and the Regulated Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2019 and 3.1.2 to promote the needs of children and their families through advancing education.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 reported a deficit of £84,839 for the year ended 31st March 2025, a significant improvement from the £331,297 deficit in the prior year. The trustees acknowledge that 2025 was a difficult year for the sector with low placements, but note that the charity has consolidated its core business and diversified into fostering. The charity strives to maintain reserves equivalent to approximately six months of expenditure, holding unrestricted funds of £553,457 at year-end.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Johns Jones & Lo Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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 — St David's Children Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILLIP CHICKchair
• DELYTH ANN EVANS
• Dr KERRY-ANN HOLDER
• FRANK MOLONEY
• MATTHEW DAVID CLARK
• REBECCA ELIZABETH SAXTON
• Rev Arfon Jones · trustee of 3 other charities
• Suzanne Margaret Radford

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL income £711k
• HELP IN NEED TODAY income £558k
• ADOPTION MATTERS income £4.3m
• ST DAVIDS DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £4.9m
• STEPS TO WORK income £11.4m
• THE BRISTOL CHILDREN'S HELP SOCIETY income £280k

Side by side with its peers

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