Colleges Wales / Colegau Cymru

The charity aims are the advancement of education for the benefit of the general public in Wales. There is a key focus on post-14 education, lifelong learning and skills. The prime purpose is to assist member colleges to raise standards. These aims are carried out by representation and support of member colleges, provision of training, research & development work and undertaking relevant projects

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 31 July 2025, it had income of £2,380,914 and spent £2,168,560.

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 37%, from £1,732,494 in the year to 31 July 2021 to £2,380,914 in the year to 31 July 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 91% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

40% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£947,610).

Largest funder

Erasmus+ Learner 2020 gave £1,193,797 in the year to 31 July 2023, 35% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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 July 2025: £936,543 from 12 grants. Government contracts: £11,067 from 1 contract.

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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 July 2023, the charity named 7 funders who gave £1,509,266 between them. £34,890 of that came from public bodies.

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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 March 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for EWL

  Purpose: Colleges Wales/Colegau Cymru.

  Colleges Wales/Colegau Cymru

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• 16 February 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for EWL

  Purpose: Colleges Wales/Colegau Cymru.

  Colleges Wales/Colegau Cymru

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Dr Rhiannon EvansAppointed 24 November 2021
• Iwan ThomasAppointed 1 August 2024
• Jonathan MorganAppointed 1 December 2025
• Lisa Michelle ThomasAppointed 4 January 2023
• Paul SmartAppointed 4 January 2021
• Victoria JonesAppointed 1 August 2024

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

1060182

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 January 1997

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/07/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/12/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/05/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/05/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/05/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/05/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 JUL 2017 as amended on 26 Mar 2019

Company number

02832103This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.collegeswales.ac.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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