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Registered charity · Caerdydd

Welsh Refugee Council

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.welshrefugeecouncil.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Welsh Refugee Council
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 21% · Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) PROVIDE RELIEF FOR REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; (B) PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF CULTURAL, ARTISTIC, SPORTING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES; (C) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF REFUGEES AND THEIR DEPENDANTS IN NEED THEREOF SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST IN THEIR REHABILITATION WITHIN WALES; (D) PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF REFUGEES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND WAYS OF PROVIDING CHARITABLE RELIEF FOR THEM AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH; (E) ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION ABOUT THE POSITION OF REFUGEES AND THE SITUATION, WHICH GIVE RISE TO REFUGEE MOVEMENTS;

Grants received

33 grants · £2,420,030 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £960,781 (7 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £235,861
  • Comic Relief · £229,653
  • CAF · £162,273
  • BBC Children in Need · £156,839 (3 grants)

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.

10 trustees on the board

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10General Charitable Purposes 9Economic/community Development/employment 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 8Arts and leisure 4Other 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£1.9m 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.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.0 in 2021

45 from 31 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.
41%
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
1102449
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/02/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/04/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/12/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/02/2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 MAR 2017 as amended on 18 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 04818136 · Active
Contact on the register
02920489800 · info@welshrefugeecouncil.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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