Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Charity

The Welsh Ambulance Service Charity supports the services provided by the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust, enhancing what is possible through statutory funding. The Charity funds projects that benefit patients and their families throughout Wales, as well as projects that support the wellbeing and development of WAST staff and volunteers.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £66,838 and spent £246,517.

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 81%, from £358,000 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £66,838 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 369% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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: 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £15,000, awarded in 2017.

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.

• 14 October 2026, Wrexham

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

  Health & Social Care - Health Related Outcomes.

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• 10 September 2025, Wrexham

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

  Work Programme

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• 14 December 2022, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  To receive announcements from:

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• 8 December 2022, Denbighshire

  Named in a decision of Communities Scrutiny Committee

  WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICE TRUST

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• 30 November 2022, Flintshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Social & Health Care Overview & Scrutiny Committee

  Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

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

• 7 October 2026

  Named by Stephen Senior in the Senedd

  2. How is the Welsh Government monitoring late cancellations by the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust of non-emergency patient transport in Monmouthshire and Torfaen? OQ64614 2. Sut y mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn monitro achosion lle mae Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru yn canslo cludia…

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• 7 October 2026

  Named by Mabon ap Gwynfor in the Senedd

  …travel to and from that appointment safely and reliably. This is precisely why the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee, and the Welsh ambulance services NHS trust have accepted the need for further improvement in non-emergency patient transport services. For many people, reliable transport is n…

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• 30 September 2026

  Named in a written question from Louise Emery

  Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care.

  …h Government working with the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust to reduce the amount of time taken to respond to category red calls? The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is taking forward a programme of work to optimise performance through its new clinical response model. This includes strengthening c…

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• 2 September 2026

  Named in a written question from Janet Finch-Saunders

  Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care.

  …onal expectation that all handovers are completed within 45 minutes of arrival. In support, the Welsh Government is working with the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and NHS Wales Performance and Improvement to reduce ambulance waits by improving handover,…

1 trustee runs the charity.

• Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS TrustOrganisationAppointed 28 March 2000

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, 4 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

1050084

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 October 1995

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 19/07/1995 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEED DATED 28 MARCH 2000

Website

ambulance.nhs.wales/get-involved/welsh-ambulance-service-charityAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Denbighshire

• 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.
• 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Denbighshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Denbighshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Clwyd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn