Noah's Ark Children's Hospital Charity

Fundraising to provide equipment and other resources for the Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £2,347,902 and spent £1,831,713.

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 130%, from £1,022,123 in the year to 31 December 2020 to £2,347,902 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 78% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

The Waterloo Foundation gave £10,000 in the year to 31 December 2022, 1% 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: Not reported. 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 December 2022, the charity named 5 funders who gave £24,232 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 4 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £53,432.

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.

• 29 January 2025, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Greater Gwent Cremation Joint Committee

  Recycled Metal Scheme

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

• 21 October 2026

  Named by Zaynub Akbar in the Senedd

  …e from all across Wales. My constituency of Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf is home to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales and Velindre University NHS Trust. These hospitals have been caring for people from all across Wales for decades, and with r…

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• 20 March 2026

  Named in a written question from Natasha Asghar

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

  Will the Cabinet Secretary confirm whether he has spoken with health boards about delays to treatment through Noah's Ark Children's Hospital and outline what the delays are? Separate waiting times data for children referred to Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital is not collected.

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• 18 March 2026

  Named in a written question from Natasha Asghar

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

  Will the Cabinet Secretary provide the current average referral to treatment waiting time for children and young people using Noah's Ark Children's Hospital? Welsh Government does not hold referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times data by hospital site. RTT data relating to Noah’s Ark Children’s Hos…

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• 18 March 2026

  Named in a written question from Natasha Asghar

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

  Will the Cabinet Secretary outline the current average referral to treatment waiting time for children using Noah's Ark Children's Hospital by treatment function?

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• 3 December 2025

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …youngest person to ever be diagnosed with this cruel disease, and since last new year's eve, he had been living in a hospital room at Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales, alongside his parents, Mark and Melanie, and his brother Liam. Prior to this, Kyle was healthy, just like any other boy his…

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• 14 May 2025

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …help with breathing, nutrition and has very limited mobility. His parents and brother are at his side all the time, living with him at Noah's Ark Children's Hospital for Wales. They desperately want to get Kyle home to be cared for. Their privately owned house is not suitable for the sort of adaptat…

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• 5 December 2024

  Named in a written question from Rhys ab Owen

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

  …of scientific discoveries into new cancer treatments. Our investment also supports the Welsh arm of the paediatric ECMC network in the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, which has a committed and established medical and research team, a trial coordinator, and a data manager offering children…

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• 5 December 2024

  Named in a written question from Rhys ab Owen

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

  …of scientific discoveries into new cancer treatments. Our investment also supports the Welsh arm of the paediatric ECMC network in the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, which has a committed and established medical and research team, a trial coordinator, and a data manager offering children…

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• 18 May 2023

  Named in a written question from Rhun ap Iorwerth

  Addressed to the Minister for Health and Social Services.

  …s academy. The Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSCC) has also invested in the paediatric gastroenterology service at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, so it has additional endoscopy capacity and a multidisciplinary team in place to support children with gastroenterological…

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• 18 May 2023

  Named in a written question from Mark Isherwood

  Addressed to the Minister for Health and Social Services.

  …s academy. The Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSCC) has also invested in the paediatric gastroenterology service at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, so it has additional endoscopy capacity and a multidisciplinary team in place to support children with gastroenterological…

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• 18 May 2023

  Named in a written question from Mark Isherwood

  Addressed to the Minister for Health and Social Services.

  …s academy. The Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee (WHSCC) has also invested in the paediatric gastroenterology service at the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, so it has additional endoscopy capacity and a multidisciplinary team in place to support children with gastroenterological…

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Edward Augustus HaywardChair
• Dr MAZIN ALFAHAMAppointed 23 January 2017
• Ian GorvettAppointed 18 October 2022
• Julie Ann HaywardAppointed 27 August 2013
• Karen ClatworthyAppointed 22 August 2018
• Lindsay Hugh DoyleAppointed 8 December 2015
• Melanie Anne BrookesAppointed 18 October 2022
• Seamus Oliver GatesAppointed 17 October 2018

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.

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Charity number

1069485

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 May 1998

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/12/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/04/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/08/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 AUG 2015 as amended on 28 Apr 2026

Company number

03486361This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.noahsarkcharity.orgAs 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.
• 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.

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• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
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