Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative

Welsh Heritage Schools Initiative encourages young people (age 5-19) in schools: primary, secondary, special schools for children with special needs, 6th form colleges, is appreciate Welsh heritage, help to preserve it, record and contribute to it involving their communities. WHSI raise money to award prizes for heritage projects by schools participating in the initiative.

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 30 September 2026, it had income of £24,820 and spent £27,197.

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

Down 5%, from £26,201 in the year to 30 September 2022 to £24,820 in the year to 30 September 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 110% of its income in the year to 30 September 2026. It spent more than its income in 5 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 30 September 2026: £2,500 from 1 grant. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 1999, worth at least £31,250.

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.

• 13 December 2024, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of West Glamorgan Archives Committee

  Report of the County Archivist.

  Read the meeting record

• 12 July 2023, Rhondda Cynon Taf

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Announcements

  Read the meeting record

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2 trustees run the charity.

• Aled RumbleAppointed 31 December 2025
• Dr Robert Huw GriffithsAppointed 21 September 2023

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

1048155

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 July 1995

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 25 OCTOBER 1994 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEED OF SAME DATE.

Website

www.whsi.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Caerphilly

• 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 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Caerphilly Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Caerphilly's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Casnewydd Islwyn