Children in Wales-plant yng Nghymru

Children in Wales is the national umbrella children's organisation in Wales. We bring organisations and individuals together to:* Make the UNCRC a reality in Wales * Fight for sustainable quality services and fair shares for all children and young people * Ensure special attention and treatment for children in need and those who are marginalised * Give children and young people a voice

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,502,609 and spent £1,705,337.

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 18%, from £1,275,845 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,502,609 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% 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

76% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,136,867).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £922,625 in the year to 31 March 2025, 61% 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: £1,042,960 from 10 grants. Government contracts: £93,907 from 1 contract.

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 13 funders who gave £1,105,062 between them. £941,758 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

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 4 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £206,892.

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.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Arthur Isaac Templeman-LilleyAppointed 9 February 2026
• Helen Mary JonesAppointed 13 October 2021
• Huw John PerryAppointed 4 June 2024
• Jayne Elizabeth DrummondAppointed 8 September 2026
• Katie Elizabeth SimmonsAppointed 7 November 2023
• Liam Patrick MaguireAppointed 17 March 2026
• Melanie Emma SimmondsAppointed 27 June 2025
• Nirushan SudarsanAppointed 4 June 2024
• Professor Euan Jonathan HailsAppointed 7 November 2023
• Rachel SimmondsAppointed 15 November 2025
• Rhiannon Beaumont-WalkerAppointed 23 September 2026

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

1020313

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 April 1993

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/04/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/02/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2011

Company number

02805996This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.childreninwales.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.

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

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