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Registered charity · Cardiff

The Representative Body of the Church in Wales

  • 23 trustees
  • Income £23m (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
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.churchinwales.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£23m£29m
  • 2024£22m£29m
  • 2023£24m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£28m
  • 2021£20m£31m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE MISSION AND MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH IN WALES MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN:THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH IN WALES.THE ROYAL CHARTER 1919.THE WELSH CHURCH ACT 1914. THE WELSH CHURCH (TEMPORALITIES) ACT 1919.

Grants received

31 grants · £1,850,338 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.

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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.

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance
9
company-linked trustees

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

Religious Activities 23Education/training 4Accommodation/housing 3General Charitable Purposes 3Environment/conservation/heritage 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 8Arts and leisure 6Health and social care 3

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£22.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

116 from 100 in 2020
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1142813
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH IN WALES;THE ROYAL CHARTER 1919;THE WELSH CHURCH ACT 1914;THE WELSH CHURCH (TEMPORALITIES) ACT 1919.
Contact on the register
02920348200
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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