Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham

Promote a range of support servicesIdentify views and represent them to decision makers Provide a Volunteer CentreProvide a funding service and range of training courses Establishment of effective partnerships Promote the voluntary sector in planning service developmentSupport for carers and individualsProvide a range of services and activities for the Community programmes

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wrexham Maelor District

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,070,350 and spent £1,082,815.

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

Down 7%, from £1,149,421 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,070,350 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 101% 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

57% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£611,061).

Largest funder

Wrexham County Borough Council gave £378,300 in the year to 31 March 2025, 35% 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: £88,418 from 6 grants. Government contracts: £522,643 from 6 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 25 funders who gave £886,559 between them. £751,296 of that came from public bodies.

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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 21 grants to this charity since 2004, worth at least £2,060,993.

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.

• 10 January 2024, Wrexham

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Safeguarding, Communities and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee/Crime and Disorder Scrutiny Committee

  Wellbeing Hub Annual Progress Report

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

• 12 June 2024

  Named by Cecilia Kenny in the Senedd

  …ct payments forum, which we have a little bit of support with, and previously, when we had the scheme originally, we had the Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham, which is our local voluntary service, which was very involved, but they lost the support contract to that quite a few years…

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• 30 January 2024

  Named by Mark Isherwood in the Senedd

  …us and racial hate crime? I attended the moving 2023 Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, organised by the Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham, when the theme chosen by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was 'ordinary people'. As you stated, the theme this year is the '…

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• 11 October 2022

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  Llywydd, I'm aware of the group to which the Member refers, and it was good to join him at the annual general meeting of the Association of Voluntary Organisations in Wrexham recently. The sequence of events that the Member outlines is the correct one. The responsibilities in this area lie with loca…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Helen DaviesAppointed 12 November 2019
• Jayne UnalkatAppointed 14 October 2025
• Katie MacgregorAppointed 14 October 2025
• Kevin ForbesAppointed 23 March 2022
• Margaret HeatonAppointed 11 November 2019
• Natasha BortonAppointed 17 October 2023
• Olga FaheyAppointed 18 October 2024
• Peter HowellAppointed 11 May 2022
• Scot OwenAppointed 12 November 2019

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

1043989

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 February 1995

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 NOVEMBER 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 21 NOVEMBER 1996 AND 19 MARCH 1997. as amended on 17 Oct 2022 as amended on 27 Oct 2022

Company number

02993429This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.avow.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• 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.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Wrexham Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Wrexham's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Fflint Wrecsam
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn