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Registered charity · Cardiff

Cardiff Metropolitan University

  • 23 trustees
  • Income £149m (2025)
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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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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • HEIW Provision of Enhanced and Advanced Education and Training Buyer: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) Value not published Date not published CPV 80000000 Source: Find a Tender

    Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) are undertaking a review of Health Professional Education and Training Services delivered to NHS Wales. HEIW sought to commission a multi-provider framework agreement to commission and procure f…

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 2 more
Where
Southwark, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Denbighshire and more
Website
www.cardiffmet.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£149m£147m
  • 2024£145m£145m
  • 2023£153m£148m
Earlier years
  • 2022£137m£138m
  • 2021£122m£119m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

FROM THE EDUCATION REFORM ACT 1988 AS AMENDED: (A) TO PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION; (B) PROVIDE FURTHER EDUCATION;(C) TO CARRY OUT RESEARCH AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH IT IN SUCH MANNER AS THE CORPORATION THINK FIT;(D) TO DO ANYTHING WHICH APPEARS TO BE NECESSARY OR EXPEDIENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXERCISE OF ANY OF THE POWERS CONFERRED ON IT BY SUBSECTIONS 124 (1) AND (2) OF THE 1988 ACT,

Grants received

12 grants · £508,969 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

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £480,972 (7 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £27,997 (3 grants)
  • Nesta · (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9972025-01-30
  • Nesta Amount not published2023-06-28
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £13,3932022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £7,6632022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £7,7312021-04-01

Contracts awarded

23 contracts · £4,677,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

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.

2.1y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
3.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (20)

Portfolio (3)

3
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 23The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 23Accommodation/housing 21Amateur Sport 1Religious Activities 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.

Education 3Arts and leisure 1Business services 1

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£148.6m latest income
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.

14.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 2.0 in 2021

1660 from 1319 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.
12%
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
1140762
Status
Registered
Governing document
ARTICLES OF GOVERNMENT DATED 12 DECEMBER 1994 AS AMENDED ON 1 NOVEMBER 2011
Contact on the register
02920416072 · governance@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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