Gypsies and Travellers Wales Limited

Gypsies and Travellers Wales provides an extensive information, advice and liaison service to Gypsies and Travellers, the Local Authority and all relevant agencies and professionals. The Organisation also runs specific issue based projects: an IT-based Driving Theory course, provides IT & Literacy skills sessions, Employment skills workshops and weekly Youth activities sessions.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: In Practice Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £335,410 and spent £324,460.

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.

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Income over time

Up 111%, from £158,721 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £335,410 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 97% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

TCBC gave £94,139 in the year to 31 March 2025, 28% 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: £176,451 from 2 grants. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 8 funders who gave £302,782 between them. £167,643 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 10 grants to this charity since 2016, worth at least £852,600.

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 6 payments to this charity worth £155,015 between 1 May 2025 and 21 April 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.

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

• 16 July 2026

  Named in a written question from Andrew RT Davies

  Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality.

  How much funding has Welsh Government provided Gypsies and Travellers Wales in each of the past 5 years? In 2021-22 and 2022-23, the Welsh Government provided no funding to Gypsies and Travellers Wales. Funding of £48,701.40 was provided in 2023-24, £12,288.52 in 2024-25, and £233,890.29 in 2025-26,…

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• 30 March 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec SJTCW

  Purpose: Gypsies and Travellers Wales.

  Gypsies and Travellers Wales

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• 19 June 2025

  Named by David Rowlands in the Senedd

  …sn't there. I know this committee is well versed in some of those challenges. In the conversations I've had recently with colleagues at Gypsies and Travellers Wales, they told me about a family who've been victims of hate crime in their community. They've had swastikas daubed on their fence. They've…

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• 3 October 2024

  Named by John Griffiths in the Senedd

  …p work on the provision of sites for Gypsy, Roma and Travellers. We have Louisa Devonish joining us remotely. Louisa is the director of Gypsies and Travellers Wales. We are hoping that Martin Gallagher, who is a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller activist, writer and academic researcher, will also join us vi…

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• 3 October 2024

  Named by Louisa Devonish in the Senedd

  …vice. We have a pan-Wales advice line that we will be starting next month. We're just hiring for it at the moment. Because we're called Gypsies and Travellers Wales, we get a lot of requests from all over Wales for support, especially around housing issues or benefits issues. So, we're going to tria…

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• 5 October 2023

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …ear to support advocacy services. They are absolutely crucial, the advocacy services: Travelling Ahead, and also not just TGP Cymru but Gypsies and Travellers Wales now, which is much strengthened. But I don't know, Stuart, if you want to say anything about where you've seen good practice in local a…

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• 5 October 2023

  Named by Stuart Evans in the Senedd

  …e staffing front. But there has been some good work: some of the family liaison officers, as well as the work that Travelling Ahead and Gypsies and Travellers Wales have been doing very much in that one-to-one, face-to-face meeting with the families. There are some challenges in terms of illiteracy…

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• 18 May 2022

  Named by Jasmine Jones in the Senedd

  Hi, my name's Jasmine Jones. I'm the manager at Gypsies and Travellers Wales, a small organisation that provides advice and advocacy to Gypsies and Travellers.

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Dr HUGH MACKAYAppointed 30 September 2013
• James Edward PeateAppointed 22 September 2026
• Jasmine Adele JonesAppointed 20 February 2024
• Louise SantaanaAppointed 14 April 2021
• Lowri Ellis GriffithsAppointed 22 September 2026
• Rhona ProbertAppointed 30 September 2013
• Wayne Russell KennedyAppointed 22 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

1020635

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 May 1993

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 14/04/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/06/2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/08/2014

Company number

02808978This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.gtwales.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 2 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 the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

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• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
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