Porthcawl u3a

Porthcawl U3A is a learning co-operative of older people. Its programme includes lectures, educational visits, cultural and social events and a wide range of study and interest groups.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend
• Neath Port Talbot
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Porthcawl and Its Surrounding Locality

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £44,905 and spent £42,966.

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 487%, from £7,645 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £44,905 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 96% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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 December 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

• 23 November 2022

  Named by Sarah Murphy in the Senedd

  …are also tech solutions such as water-saving flushes and tap fittings that I know Welsh Water already supply to customers, and that my group, Porthcawl U3A, were very keen for me to ask you about. So, Minister, given that parts of Wales are highly likely to continue facing summer drought and as bil…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew John MasonAppointed 10 April 2024
• Benjamin Rhys FieldingAppointed 16 September 2020
• Laurence Richard ParryAppointed 13 March 2017
• Louise RobertsAppointed 9 March 2025
• Malcolm CowperAppointed 9 March 2025
• Norah Clarke MrsAppointed 27 October 2025
• Rhian DaviesAppointed 9 March 2025
• Richard HopkinsAppointed 5 April 2023
• Selwyn JonesAppointed 15 April 2026

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

1052905

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 February 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15 JUNE 1995AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 12 JUL 2018 as amended on 27 Oct 2020

Website

www.porthcawlu3a.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• 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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg