Friends of Oystermouth Castle

Oystermouth Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade 1 Listed Building. Access and presentation is supervised by this charity which promotes the history and heritage of the site to visitors and provides a venue for many school, college and university students. The castle hosts Medieval Re-enactments and Living History Societies which recreate aspects of life during the Middle Ages.

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

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £142,727 and spent £92,024.

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 759%, from £16,612 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £142,727 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 64% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

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 December 2025: £50,805 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher Gerald OldfieldAppointed 8 December 2023
• Clive Beverley HughesAppointed 29 September 2014
• David Martin WintleAppointed 6 May 2026
• Gerald Charles ThomasAppointed 8 September 2025
• John William MarvelleyAppointed 14 July 2022
• Marie Elizabeth HughesAppointed 29 September 2014
• Michael William EamesAppointed 12 April 2021
• Paul Samuel LewisAppointed 31 January 2022

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

1011377

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 June 1992

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 21 NOVEMBER 1991 as amended on 10 Mar 2023 as amended on 06 Mar 2024

Website

www.swansea.gov.uk/oystermouthcastleAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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