WELSH HOUSING AID LIMITED

Registered charity 515902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHELTER CYMRU

Shelter Cymru exists to defend the right to a safe home, because home is everything. We will always fight for home, and for everyone without one. Together, we can fight the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and society. We never give up.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS CAUSED BY HOMELESSNESS AND BAD HOUSING. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Shelter Cymru ended the year with a small surplus of £47k and unrestricted reserves of £2,327,318, which are above the trustees' policy target of £1,820k. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Theodoulouchair
• Andrew James Clennell
• Ceri Huw Breeze
• Cheryl Tracy
• Felicity McGeown
• Gareth Arthur Leech
• Helen Antoniazzi
• John Ceri Edwards
• Kate Newton
• Meri Huws · trustee of 2 other charities
• Miguela Gonzalez
• Ruth Ryder
• Susanna Carter

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL.

• WELSH REFUGEE COUNCIL income £1.9m
• COMMUNITY HOUSING CYMRU income £2.1m
• Shelter Housing Advice and Research Project (Leicester) income £146k
• WELSH WOMEN'S AID income £3.2m
• SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE LIMITED income £77.0m
• WELWYN HATFIELD WOMEN'S REFUGE AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £503k

Side by side with its peers

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