Wales Environment Link

Our mission is for the WEL network to be the primary NGO sector influencer of environmental policy, legislation and practice in Wales, respected for our members expertise and advice and at the centre of government decision making.

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 £261,900 and spent £198,325.

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 5%, from £249,498 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £261,900 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 76% of its income in the year to 31 March 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 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: £65,769 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 11 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £1,324,834.

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.

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

• 2 November 2026

  Named by Cristiana Emsley in the Senedd

  …nk you. Moving on to the Water Resources (Control of Agricultural Pollution) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2026, we have the letter from Wales Environment Link, dated 28 October. Wales Environment Link has written about these regulations, raising concerns about the explanation for the breach of th…

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• 2 November 2026

  Named by Huw Thomas in the Senedd

  …hin the process. There are environmental concerns around this change in the regulations and, from the evidence provided in the letter from Wales Environment Link, it gives the impression that the Minister's hiding behind process, when actually that process was completed. So, I’d like further clarifi…

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• 3 August 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: CMGEC

  Purpose: Cyswllt Amgylchedd Cymru/Wales Environment Link.

  Cyswllt Amgylchedd Cymru/Wales Environment Link

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• 3 June 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: CMRRS

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 18 March 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

7 trustees run the charity.

• Roger ThomasChairAppointed 5 July 2016
• Arpana ChunilalAppointed 1 July 2025
• Beverley Penney
• Jeevan KaurAppointed 1 July 2025
• Jennifer Mary AndersonAppointed 7 February 2019
• Owen Glyn DerbyshireAppointed 21 May 2025
• Rachel Caroline SharpAppointed 6 August 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

1022675

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 June 1993

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 01/11/1990AS AMENDED ON 08/05/1991AS AMENDED ON 05/05/1993AS AMENDED ON 18/06/1997AS AMENDED ON 10/09/1997AS AMENDED ON 03/07/2002AS AMENDED ON 07/07/2004AS AMENDED ON 21/11/2012AS AMENDED ON 10/07/2013AS AMENDED ON 16 MAY 2017 as amended on 04 Jul 2018 as amended on 04 Jul 2018 as amended on 14 Nov 2024

Website

www.waleslink.orgAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
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