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Registered charity · Cardiff

Colleges Wales / Colegau Cymru

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.collegeswales.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Colleges Wales / Colegau Cymru Limited
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.2m
  • 2024£3.1m£2.9m
  • 2023£3.4m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.3m£3.1m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 39%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN WALES

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

3y median 2.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 15Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

11.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.0 in 2021

16 from 14 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
40%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1060182
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/12/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/05/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2017 as amended on 26 Mar 2019
Companies House
Company number 02832103 · Active
Contact on the register
029 2052 2500 · carolyn.thomas@collegeswales.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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