University of the Third Age - Cynon Valley Branch

We meet, as a full group once a month. The venue is at Cynon Linc in Aberdare. We hold a business meeting, followed by a speaker. At various times in a month we hold groups in poetry, reading, walking, gardening, music and travel trips.

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

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cynon Valley and Its Surrounding Locality

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £971 and spent £1,671.

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 332%, from £225 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £971 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 172% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Christine GriffithsAppointed 4 January 2020
• Ivor RiversAppointed 4 January 2020
• John Horton DaveyAppointed 19 August 2005
• Marion RiversAppointed 4 January 2020

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, 4 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

1069768

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 May 1998

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 1 FEBRUARY 1993 AS AMENDED 12 JANUARY 1998 AS AMENDED 5 JANUARY 2004; AS UPDATED 10 JANUARY 2005

Website

www.thirdagetrust//cynonvalleyAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda