Groundwork North Wales

Groundwork works in partnership with the private, public and voluntary sectors, to enable people to change their own lives for the better, by engaging them in physical environmental activities and helping them to gain green skills and jobs.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Please See Objects

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £2,948,172 and spent £2,727,622.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 10%, from £2,673,123 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £2,948,172 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

38% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,134,557).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £105,000 in the year to 31 March 2025, 4% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £889,822 from 22 grants. Government contracts: £244,735 from 13 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £105,000. £105,000 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 32 grants to this charity since 2004, worth at least £4,065,588.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 3 payments to this charity worth £122,588 between 9 December 2021 and 24 March 2022.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 14 June 2022, Wrexham

  Named in a decision of Executive Board

  Review of Member Appointments to Outside Bodies

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 20 September 2021

  Named in a written question from Darren Millar

  Addressed to the Minister for Economy.

  …£120,000 Conwy CBC, Dwygyfylchi Beach Access Improvements Aberconwy £91,700 Conwy CBC, Llandudno Shelters: North Shore Aberconwy £126,000 Groundwork North Wales, Minera Lead Mines visitor amenities Clwyd South £94,060 Conwy CBC, Gwydir Park Public Toilets and Cycle Facilities Aberconwy £128,000 Bry…

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Carl Ryan StephensAppointed 28 November 2024
• Dr Stan MooreAppointed 27 November 2013
• Helen Elizabeth WrightAppointed 7 January 2013
• Kenneth Rodney TaylorAppointed 30 January 2020
• Nicholas Charles RingroseAppointed 28 November 2024
• Nicola Jane SaidAppointed 24 March 2020
• Nigel Frederick Reader CBEAppointed 24 March 2020
• Sarah OversonAppointed 27 November 2013

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1004132

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 September 1991

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/05/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/05/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/04/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/04/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/08/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/04/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/02/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06/03/2015 AS AMENDED ON 10 JUL 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 OCT 2021

Company number

02614714This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.groundworknorthwales.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Wrexham Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Wrexham's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Fflint Wrecsam
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn