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Registered charity · Cardiff

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £37m (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
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.wcva.cymru (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Wales Council for Voluntary Action
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£37m£35m
  • 2024£33m£29m
  • 2023£35m£33m
Earlier years
  • 2022£39m£36m
  • 2021£51m£50m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 89%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, IN SUCH MANNER AS SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH CHARITY COMMISSIONPUBLISHED GUIDANCE FROM TIME TO TIME AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN WALES, THEVOLUNTARY SECTOR AND THE PROMOTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES THROUGH THAT SECTOR'SPROVISION OF BENEFIT TO THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:PROVIDING SERVICES, EDUCATION, TRAINING, INFORMATION, ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO CHARITIESAND OTHER VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN WALES;4.2 TO ADVANCE OTHER SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLEACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCHMANNER AS THE DIRECTORS MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Grants received

21 grants · £11,074,802 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

  • Comic Relief · £5,300,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £4,030,377 (8 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £901,657 (5 grants)
  • Department for Work and Pensions · £502,405
  • Spirit of 2012 · £170,363

Most recent

  • LEF £155,0002024-11-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £58,3232023-06-26
  • Department for Work and Pensions £502,4052022-04-01
  • Comic Relief £1,000,0002021-03-23
  • Comic Relief £2,150,0002020-05-07

Grants given

2,774 grants · £194,006,711 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 recipients

  • Pembrokeshire County Council · £6,270,926 (35 grants)
  • Cardiff Council · £4,582,814 (17 grants)
  • Gwynedd County Council · £4,082,265 (21 grants)
  • Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council · £3,803,719 (14 grants)
  • Isle of Anglesey County Council · £3,455,575 (23 grants)

Most recent

  • SEF-Cymru £20,0002025-10-06
  • Ace - Action in Caerau & Ely £55,7412025-10-01
  • Keep Wales Tidy £93,9882025-10-01
  • Youth Sport Trust £98,4332025-10-01
  • National Library of Wales £99,9862025-10-01
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.

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 13Education/training 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 17Professional services 7Other services 5

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£36.6m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 0.5 in 2021

79 from 100 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
218093
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/12/1946AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/03/1950AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/12/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/03/1983AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/09/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/09/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/12/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 21/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/11/2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 10/08/2015NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24 NOV 2016 as amended on 20 Nov 2025 as amended on 20 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 00425299 · Active
Contact on the register
02920431734
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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