Cardiff Third Sector Council (C3sc)

Provision of advice and support to voluntary organisations in the Cardiff area.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £984,967 and spent £1,040,221.

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

About the same: £984,967 in the year to 31 March 2025, against £1,007,076 in the year to 31 March 2021.

Spending against income

It spent 106% 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

89% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£873,783).

Largest funder

Wales Council for Voluntary Action/TSSW Grant gave £313,250 in the year to 31 March 2025, 32% 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: £548,250 from 4 grants. Government contracts: £325,533 from 8 contracts.

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 19 funders who gave £947,642 between them. £910,955 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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £1,512,082.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 7 payments to this charity worth £297,222 between 17 February 2021 and 4 April 2024.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Abbas RadaidehAppointed 26 September 2024
• Callum Michael Alexander StubbsAppointed 19 March 2026
• Christopher OlusolaAppointed 23 July 2026
• Dr Christopher John KiizaAppointed 17 October 2020
• Emrys Cooke BarnesAppointed 19 March 2026
• Linda NewtonAppointed 19 March 2026
• Maria MesaAppointed 30 March 2023
• Mx Andy Craig MurphyAppointed 23 July 2026
• Nirushan SudarsanAppointed 19 March 2026
• Stuart Alan CoxAppointed 19 March 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

1068623

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 March 1998

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 19 MARCH 1997. AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 4 MARCH 1998, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 19 JANUARY 2011 AND REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 9 FEBRUARY 2011. as amended on 26 Sep 2019

Company number

03336421This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.c3sc.org.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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• 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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