PEOPLE AND WORK UNIT

Registered charity 515211 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's objects are the advancement of education by carrying out and/or assisting in carrying out research, action and study associated with social and economic disadvantage and to promote education in all matters related to community organisations. The Unit undertakes action research programmes in partnership with community groups focusing on supporting people to gain qualifications.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY CARRYING OUT AND/OR ASSISTING IN CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND STUDY INTO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC B) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS.

Area of benefit: GENERAL, BUT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE PEOPLE GWENT (NOW MONMOUTHSHIRE, TORFAEN, NEWPORT, BLAENAU GWENT AND PARTS OF CAERPHILLY)

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 unrestricted reserves fell to £119,414 from £171,298 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure of £83,791. The trustees note that earned income took a hit in 2025 due to public funding cutbacks and uncertainty regarding future recruitment and financial position. Despite this, the trustees maintain a going concern basis, citing adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• 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

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Betty Vallance
• Claudine Nicola Anderson
• David Rees · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gerard McHugh
• Jan Louise Huyton · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP GLYN WATKINS
• Susan Caroline Davies
• Susan Mary Walker
• Tracey Sandra Stanley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE.

• COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE income £261k
• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• USER VOICE income £784k
• PEOPLE AND PLANET STUDENT ACTIVITIES LIMITED income £524k
• THE PWC FOUNDATION income £947k
• UPP FOUNDATION income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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