CEFN COED COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 523664 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operate as a Community Centre making rooms available daily from 0830 to 2000 Monday to Friday and at w/ends by arrangement

Objects

A COMMUNITY CENTRE

Area of benefit: CEFN COED AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£69k

Latest spending

£70k

Registered

1969

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small trading deficit of £1,083 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a slight increase in general reserves to £9,712. The trustees note that free reserves are well short of their stated policy target of approximately £67,379, and the charity's future is reliant on identifying additional income sources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Hall hire (54% of income)

“Community Centre activities - hire income 29,405” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy

“Free reserves as at 31st March 2025 stood at £9,712, which is well short of this target.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The future of the charity is reliant upon these additional sources of income being identified and received. The trustees have a reasonable expectation that sufficient income will be generated and allow the charity to continue for at least the next 12 months and consequensly these financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £39,310 — grants £39,310 (2); 57% of the £68,715 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £9,810 — grants £9,810 (1); 19% of the £50,935 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 1

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, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 04/03/2026, 32 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 04/03/2026, 397 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 23/09/2025, 601 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 28/03/2025, 787 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 20/05/2024, 840 days after the 31/01/2022 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

Ann Wilkins
Cheryl Lang
Dr Keith Robert Thomas
Joshua Lloyd Evans
Michael Joseph Vaughan
PHILLIP GRIFFITHS
Richard Davies

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

Operates in: Merthyr Tydfil

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£69k	£70k
31/03/2024	£51k	£54k
31/03/2023	£45k	£54k
31/03/2022	£42k	£56k
31/03/2021	£51k	£42k

Common questions

Is CEFN COED COMMUNITY CENTRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a small trading deficit of £1,083 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a slight increase in general reserves to £9,712. The trustees note that free reserves are well short of their stated policy target of approximately £67,379, and the charity's future is reliant on identifying additional income sources. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/04/2023	£10k	Wales COL - Warm/comfort Space

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE TRUE COLOURS TRUST	1	£10k
THE OAKDALE TRUST	1	£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANOLFAN CEIRIOG CENTRE CYF.

CANOLFAN CEIRIOG CENTRE CYF income £28k
CAMBORNE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £141k
COMMUNITY HOUSE (ETON ROAD) income £372k
EDENTHORPE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £33k
BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £295k
LITTLEPORT LEISURE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £336k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CEFN COED COMMUNITY CENTRE	£69k	—	below	—	noted
CANOLFAN CEIRIOG CENTRE CYF FY2025	£28k	—	above	—	no doubt
CAMBORNE COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025	£141k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COMMUNITY HOUSE (ETON ROAD) FY2025	£372k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EDENTHORPE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION FY2025	£33k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£295k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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