The Environment Centre Ltd

The Environment Centre provides a focus for environmental information, education and activities as well as having a visitor facility to promote environmental & sustainable principles.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined-in Practice South West Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £440,083 and spent £446,900.

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 248%, from £126,491 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £440,083 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

50% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£219,582).

Largest funder

Swansea Council gave £31,251 in the year to 31 March 2025, 7% 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: £178,331 from 7 grants. Government contracts: £41,251 from 2 contracts.

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 2 funders who gave £42,713 between them. £31,251 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 15 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £206,731.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 15 July 2024, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Climate Change & Nature Recovery Service Transformation Committee

  Presentation - Local Places for Nature (LPfN) Programme - Local Nature Partnership Grant 2023-25.

  Read the meeting record

• 16 May 2024, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Common Seal.

  Read the meeting record

• 18 May 2023, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Common Seal.

  Read the meeting record

• 8 March 2023, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Scrutiny Performance Panel - Climate Change and Nature

  Nature Conservation - Project Updates

  Read the meeting record

We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Steve BolchoverChair
• Alan KreppelAppointed 1 January 1997
• Brian Pawson
• Carrie Townsend JonesAppointed 28 November 2022
• Deb Hill
• Frances EllsworthAppointed 1 December 2025
• Hannah ManbyAppointed 1 December 2025
• Noel IsherwoodAppointed 29 November 2021
• Peter JonesAppointed 1 April 2017
• Peter Lytton AndersonAppointed 11 November 2024
• Reena OwenAppointed 6 October 2014

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, 3 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

1039378

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 July 1994

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 MAY 1994

Company number

02929729This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.environmentcentre.org.ukAs 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.
• 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.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Swansea Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Swansea's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gŵyr Abertawe
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd