Cymdeithas Gwasanaethau Gwirfoddol Sir Gar / Carmarthenshire Association of Voluntary Services

The County Voluntary Council (CVC) for Carmarthenshire - offering support, information and guidance to Third Sector organisations across the county as well as supporting individuals who wish to volunteer in finding appropriate voluntary placements.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Carmarthenshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £752,287 and spent £556,823.

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 8%, from £814,312 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £752,287 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 74% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

57% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£426,111).

Largest funder

Wales Council for Voluntary Action gave £263,940 in the year to 31 March 2025, 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 March 2025: £401,001 from 7 grants. Government contracts: £25,110 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 March 2025, the charity named 8 funders who gave £690,051 between them. £600,569 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £1,848,860.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Alan BowenAppointed 21 November 2025
• Andre Samuel James McPhersonAppointed 23 November 2023
• Awen LittleAppointed 1 May 2026
• David Jonathan WilliamsAppointed 27 February 2023
• Leann Marie DouglasAppointed 21 November 2025
• Louise AustinAppointed 21 November 2025
• Meinir Anona EvansAppointed 2 May 2025
• Peter LoughranAppointed 8 December 2023

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, 3 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

1062144

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 April 1997

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 APRIL 1997

Company number

03348742This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Carmarthenshire

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 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

• OpenCouncil: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin