Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services

Promoting charitable purposes for the benefit of Pembrokeshire, particularly advancement of education, protection of health, relief of poverty, distress & sickness. Promoting & organising cooperation in the achievement of these aims, bringing together representatives of voluntary organisations & statutory authorities within Pembrokeshire. Members are Pembrokeshire voluntary and community groups.

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

In Wales

• Pembrokeshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £2,089,741 and spent £1,975,739.

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 5%, from £2,189,744 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £2,089,741 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 95% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Wales Council for Voluntary Action gave £249,314 in the year to 31 March 2025, 12% 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: £435,416 from 8 grants. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 17 funders who gave £972,287 between them. £383,865 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 3 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £848,401.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 14 November 2025, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee

  Update from the West Wales Regional Partnership Board

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• 2 June 2025, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Volunteering: A Strategy for Pembrokeshire 2025-2030

  Read the meeting record

• 11 July 2024, Pembrokeshire

  Named in a decision of Cabinet

  Financial Assistance to Voluntary/Community Sector Organisations

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• 23 May 2024, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Partnerships Panel

  Public Service Board update - Reducing Poverty and Inequalities Projects

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• 18 January 2024, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee

  Performance Measurement Quarterly Monitoring

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• 2 October 2023, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Statutory Report of the Director of Social Services 2022/23

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 24 September 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …ion in 2025-26 to provide an infrastructure of support to the third sector across Wales. Of this funding, £218,000 will go to Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services to help local voluntary organisations with fundraising, good governance, safeguarding and volunteering. Diolch yn fawr, Paul D…

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• 2 July 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …de an infrastructure of support to the third sector across Wales. Two hundred and eighteen thousand pounds of this will go to Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services to help local voluntary organisations with fundraising, good governance, safeguarding and volunteering. Diolch, Paul Davies. B…

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• 5 February 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …visiting Llanddewi Velfrey village hall—I've mentioned this already—following storm Bert, it was so good to meet not just the Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services but many of the voluntary groups that you represent in your constituency. Now, I would suggest that they do approach the Pembr…

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• 5 February 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …. Third Sector Support Wales will receive core funding of £5.677 million in 2024-25, and £221,121 of this funding goes to the Pembrokeshire Association of Voluntary Services, to help local voluntary organisations with fundraising, good governance, safeguarding and volunteering. Diolch yn fawr, Paul…

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Angela Joy ManderAppointed 16 April 2025
• Anthony Edward SangsterAppointed 16 February 2022
• Ashleigh James PhelanAppointed 14 November 2024
• Claire Frances IncledonAppointed 26 May 2022
• Emma Sarah BinghamAppointed 13 November 2025
• Rosie Thomas-EastonAppointed 19 January 2026
• Tomos Akash PadelAppointed 13 November 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

1063289

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 July 1997

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 APRIL 1997

Company number

03343059This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Pembrokeshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Pembrokeshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro