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Groundwork Wales

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.groundwork.org.uk/wales (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Groundwork Wales
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE FIRSTLY TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT ANYWHERE IN THE AREA AND SECONDLY TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE LIVING IN OR WORKING IN OR RESORTING "TO WALES' AND THIRDLY TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS AND OF THE WAYS OR BETTER CONSERVING, PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE SAME WHERESOEVER AND FOURTHLY TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF OTHER CHARITIES HAVING OBJECTS SIMILAR TO THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY.

Grants received

6 grants · £1,002,753 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

5 trustees on the board

2.4y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

4
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 5Amateur Sport 4Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1

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

Business services 3Health and social care 2Other services 2

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£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

6.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.6 in 2021

28 from 37 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.
23%
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
1096662
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 JUNE 1998 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 17 FEBRUARY 2006.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/10/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 MAR 2016
Companies House
Company number 03577896 · Active
Contact on the register
01495222605 · kath.williams@groundwork.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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