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Registered charity · Cardiff

ST. David's Children Society

3.1. The Company shall operate for the public benefit in pursuance of the following charitable purposes or objects:3.1.1 to offer relief to those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or other disadvantage...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.adoptionwales.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST. David's Children Society
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2021£2.0m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 24%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1. The Company shall operate for the public benefit in pursuance of the following charitable purposes or objects:3.1.1 to offer relief to those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or other disadvantage primarily by working as an agency to make arrangements for the adoption and fostering of children in Wales and delivering support services to children and their families in accordance with the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and the Adoption Support Services (Wales) Regulations 2005 (as amended in 2020) and the Regulated Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2019 and 3.1.2 to promote the needs of children and their families through advancing education.

Grants received

1 grant · £3,325 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 · £3,325

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,3252023-01-17
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.

9 trustees on the board

7.7y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 9Education/training 2Disability 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.

Health and social care 8Retail and trade 8Education 4

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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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£1.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.7 in 2021

10
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
509163
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 FEBRUARY 1981 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 19 FEBRUARY 1991, 23 JANUARY 2002 AND 14 OCTOBER 2008 as amended on 12 Nov 2019 as amended on 16 Dec 2022 as amended on 17 Jul 2023 as amended on 20 Sep 2023
Companies House
Company number 01546688 · Active
Contact on the register
02920667007 · info@stdavidscs.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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