Innovate Trust Ltd

Providing support to disabled and disadvantaged individuals

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £33,256,450 and spent £33,119,007.

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 41%, from £23,669,411 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £33,256,450 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% 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

88% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£29,306,715).

Largest funder

Wales Council for Voluntary Action gave £66,013 in the year to 31 March 2025, 0% 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: £1,371,602 from 8 grants. Government contracts: £27,935,113 from 3 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 10 funders who gave £219,419 between them. £134,780 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 16 grants to this charity since 2006, worth at least £1,682,531.

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 9 payments to this charity worth £2,014,500 between 1 July 2026 and 29 September 2026.

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 March 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Glamorgan Archives Joint Committee

  Report of the Glamorgan Archivist for the period 1st December 2024 to 28th February 2025

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• 29 January 2024, Vale of Glamorgan

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Voluntary Sector Joint Liaison Committee

  Social Services and Third Sector – Iain McMillan, Head of Resource Management and Safeguarding. [View Presentation]

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

• 5 June 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for Social Justice

  Purpose: Innovate Trust.

  Innovate Trust

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• 23 May 2023

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …an all share and celebrate. I'm actually visiting volunteers at the Secret Garden project at St Fagan's National Museum of History, run by the Innovate Trust, which many of you will be aware of, during Volunteers Week, and I'll be hearing first-hand what volunteering has meant to the volunteers them…

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• 15 February 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for Social Justice

  Purpose: Pre Record - Innovate Trust.

  Pre Record - Innovate Trust

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9 trustees run the charity.

• CHARLOTTE DaviesChairAppointed 1 November 2007
• David PrattAppointed 2 December 2013
• Emma Board DaviesAppointed 31 January 2016
• Georgina PowellAppointed 1 November 2010
• Heidi SmithAppointed 30 January 2024
• Jess RumbleAppointed 28 June 2012
• Kevin O'neillAppointed 12 April 2015
• Sophie AndrewsAppointed 30 November 2022
• Sophie Jayne SmithAppointed 29 July 2020

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

1010541

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

14 April 1992

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 APRIL 1990 AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 16 NOVEMBER 1994

Company number

02493904This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.innovate-trust.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth