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

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 4 March 2026

  Named by Joel James in the Senedd

  …m proud to be working alongside fantastic organisations such as Project Seagrass, the Marine Conservation Society, Seagrass Network Cymru, Wales Environment Link, and WWF Cymru to advocate for its protection and restoration. Though modest in appearance, seagrass is one of our oceans' greatest allies…

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• 24 February 2026

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …d and Lewis Owen from the Plaid office for their work on the amendments to the Bill. I'd also like to thank Friends of the Earth Cymru and Wales Environment Link for their assistance with our amendments. Now, this is a Bill, of course, on the power to correct a historic imbalance in our communities…

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• 10 February 2026

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …Could I therefore thank the committee team, the Commission, the Government team and the environmental groups that we've been working with—Wales Environment Link and Friends of the Earth Cymru in particular—and could I thank Niamh Salkeld and Lewis Owen in the Plaid office for their support? I hope…

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• 21 January 2026

  Named by Dr David Clubb in the Senedd

  …limit to what we can do in terms of actually going out to all of these organisations, but we do work closely at a collaborative level with Wales Environment Link and other environmental organisations. I think that a number of them are coming to our event on Nature on the Board tomorrow, which I hope…

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• 11 December 2025

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …r priority areas from three years to 18 months. We've heard very strong evidence that this time frame is too long, and we've heard it from Wales Environment Link and RSPB Cymru. The Royal Society of Chemistry highlighted that targets were set for England within 13 months of the UK Act receiving Roya…

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• 11 December 2025

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …e amendments, as well as the Government with some of them as well: the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Green Alliance, WWF, Wales Environment Link, Healthier Cymru, amongst others. Contrary to what we have heard in the past, I don't think we can hear enough from experts, so I'm very i…

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• 11 December 2025

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …at this Welsh Government has been too slow in bringing forward this legislation. He's actually echoing some of my comments earlier. As the Wales Environment Link put it in their evidence: 'The Bill currently requires targets to be set within 36 months of Royal Assent—this timeframe means that target…

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• 20 November 2025

  Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd

  …t to help us out with that, please. A recent 30x30 progress report suggests that Wales is projected to miss the global target by some way. Wales Environment Link has called for an investment of £438 million a year to restore nature in line with global targets, highlighting that this would be less th…

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• 11 November 2025

  Named by Julie Morgan in the Senedd

  …ry promising. Yesterday, I was also very pleased to meet with a number of organisations, like Delyth has met—the Green Alliance, the RSPB, Wales Environment Link and Plantlife—where we discussed the Bill. They said how much they welcome the Bill, and were very enthusiastic about it. But they did hop…

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• 11 November 2025

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …Minister, why do you continue to reject the headline target of reversing the loss of nature by 2030 and its clear recovery by 2050? As the Wales Environment Link highlighted, the three-year time frame for laying regulations, setting the first suite of targets, means that targets might not be set unt…

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• 11 November 2025

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …ugh a body that's there to work for them. That is the goal. That's what we will be pushing for, and I'd like to put on record my thanks to Wales Environment Link, the Green Alliance, RSPB, WWF, Friends of the Earth Cymru, all those groups who are seeking to make this Bill better. I look forward to w…

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• 20 October 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 1 October 2025

  Named by Huw Irranca-Davies in the Senedd

  …European beaver in Wales. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Joyce Watson MS, who is the dedicated species champion, nominated by Wales Environment Link for the European beaver, for her continued momentum and passion, which, I've got to say, has been vital in keeping this important conversa…

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• 18 September 2025

  Named by Llyr Gruffydd in the Senedd

  Okay. Just on monitoring, Wales Environment Link suggested adding a monitoring duty on Welsh Ministers that would be comparable to the duty on the Secretary of State in the UK Environment Act. Is that something you considered, and if so, why did you decide against including it?

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• 9 July 2025

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …arine policy rudderless. Look at the evidence our own climate committee here presented in our report on progress towards the 30x30 target. Wales Environment Link, WWF Cymru and the Marine Conservation Society highlighted that we have been waiting over a decade for new marine conservation zones. RSPB…

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• 3 June 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 14 May 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 22 April 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 12 March 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFM Cabsec CCRA

  Purpose: Wales Environment Link.

  Wales Environment Link

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• 29 January 2025

  Named by Huw Irranca-Davies in the Senedd

  …rotection of landscape scale and habitats as well. It really works. I think probably one of the most powerful innovations that the WEL—the Wales Environment Link—have done is to actually identify individual Members and say, 'That's your species—champion and protect them', and then the habitat flows…

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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

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Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

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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.

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