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Registered charity · Swansea

Barod Project

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £9.7m (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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.barod.cymru (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Barod Project
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.7m£9.7m
  • 2024£9.3m£9.3m
  • 2023£8.4m£8.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.9m£6.8m
  • 2021£7.0m£7.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 93% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS OR DISTRESS AMONG THOSE PERSONS GENERALLY WHO ARE DEPENDANT UPON OR AFFECTED BY ADDICTION TO NARCOTIC DRUGS AND OTHER SIMILAR SUBSTANCES OR COMPOUNDS OF POSSIBLE POTENTIAL OR SUSPECTED DANGER TO THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY. (FOR FURTHER DETAIL SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM.

Grants received

2 grants · £452,929 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 · £452,929 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £92,4262016-09-08
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £360,5032016-03-23
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

7.2y median 8y
average tenure
16y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

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 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5Accommodation/housing 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 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£9.7m 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

243 from 185 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.
99%
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
265008
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 25 SEPTEMBER 1972AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 DEC 2017 as amended on 15 Dec 2025 as amended on 15 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 01073381 · Active
Contact on the register
01792472002
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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