CWMNI URDD GOBAITH CYMRU (CORFFOREDIG) / THE WELSH LEAGUE OF YOUTH (INCORPORATED)

Registered charity 524481 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CWMNI URDD GOBAITH CYMRU, THE WELSH LEAGUE OF YOUTH (INCORPORATED), URDD GOBAITH CYMRU, YR URDD

Prif amcanion yr elusen yw sicrhau bod holl ieuenctid Cymru yn cael y cyfle trwy gyfrwng y gymraeg i ddatblygu'n unigolion cyflawn, a'u galluogi i chwarae rhan adeiladol yn y gymdeithas. Trwy feithrin sgiliau personol a chymdeithasol. Cynigir profiadau canolfannau preswyl, profiadau celfyddydol, ystod eang o chwaraeon, ynghyd a darpariaeth o weithgaredd ar lefel leol.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST THE YOUTH OF WALES TO BECOME GOOD CITIZENS ON THE BASIS OF THE CULTIVATION OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE, TRADITIONS, CULTURE, ASPIRATIONS AND IDEALS.

Area of benefit: WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £61,412 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant decrease from the previous year's £371,787. Per the trustees' report, free/unrestricted reserves stood at £5,269,315, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £7.7 million (six months of general expenditure), though the trustees anticipate this will be restored by anticipated legacy receipts. The charity remains in a strong financial position with total reserves of £32.4 million and adequate resources to continue operating as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole & Co. Discloses 4 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/03/2024, 35 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Urdd Gobaith Cymru (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram (23K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nia Bennettchair
• Arwel Gruffydd
• Deio Sion Llewellyn Owen
• Delyth Evans
• Emily Louise Shanice Pemberton
• Gemma Elizabeth Cutter
• Gwennan Sian Oakes
• IOLO ALED WALTERS
• Mari Emlyn
• Nia Eleri Morgan
• Robert James O'Rourke
• Tomos Llywelyn ab Eurfyl ap Gwilym

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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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with URBOND.

• URBOND income £379k
• THE WELSH ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS income £286k
• SMETHWICK YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £478k
• THE EDMUND TRUST income £11.1m
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• SPORTS AID CYMRU WALES income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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