Tools for Self Reliance Cymru

-To relieve poverty amongst the people of the under-developed areas of the World by the provision of hand and other tools, equipment and training.-To educate the public in Wales concerning the nature, causes and effects of poverty, and the distress and suffering arising there from in the underdeveloped areas in the World, and the special problems arising from the lack of suitable hand tools.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Elsewhere

• Tanzania

Area of benefit in its governing document: Worldwide

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £112,982 and spent £125,912.

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 10%, from £125,077 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £112,982 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 111% of its income in the year to 31 August 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 August 2025: £11,493 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,915, awarded in 2014.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Benjamin Muir SandersonAppointed 27 August 2025
• Dr Jonathan HillAppointed 6 December 2024
• Emily TillingAppointed 29 June 2025
• Herbert HainesAppointed 29 June 2025
• Kate Madeleine BlackburnAppointed 24 September 2025
• Kevin Alan JonesAppointed 25 March 2026
• Mr Jeff Thomas
• Peter John DicksonAppointed 12 January 2023
• Thomas Alexander RixAppointed 28 January 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, 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

1055483

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

21 May 1996

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 14 JUNE 1995 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 11 JANUARY 1996 as amended on 06 Dec 2024 as amended on 28 Jan 2026

Company number

03068269This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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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