South West Wales Family and Friends of Prisoners

Family and friends of prisoners (FFOPS) Volunteers promote the just treatment of families of prisoners by the prison system and society by giving advice and information and developing services for the families of prisoners, voicing the concerns of families, offering initial information and a referral service to the families of prisoners.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: South West Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £41,560 and spent £41,560.

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 10%, from £37,800 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £41,560 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each 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 6 grants to this charity since 2011, worth at least £62,050.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Beverley PoinerChair
• Dee ThyerAppointed 1 January 2015
• Lorna ByrneAppointed 31 August 2025
• Phil CowleyAppointed 1 September 2025

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

1054204

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 April 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 20 MARCH 1996

Website

www.ffops.co.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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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