Growing Space

Growing Space provides rehabilitation, sheltered training and work experience within the community for adults with or recovering from mental health problems. We offer two vocational training routes in horticulture and woodwork and also enable access to a work based learning programme, which includes IT training and personally tailored training in agreed key skill areas and confidence building.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Monmouthshire
• Newport City
• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice Newport

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,086,896 and spent £1,109,227.

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 6%, from £1,154,511 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,086,896 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 102% 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

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board gave £503,255 in the year to 31 March 2023, 40% 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: £465,000 from 6 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 2023, the charity named 16 funders who gave £1,096,167 between them. £998,943 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 4 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £394,462.

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 14 payments to this charity worth £39,138 between 30 March 2021 and 4 July 2025.

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.

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

• 16 July 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet Member for Resources

  LAND AT BROAD STREET, LLANDOVERY

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• 30 June 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet Member Rural Affairs, Communities, and Welsh Language

  WELSH GOVERNMENT ALLOTMENT SUPPORT GRANT

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• 19 May 2026, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 2 - Appointment to External Bodies

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• 13 May 2025, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 1 - Appointments to External Bodies

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• 23 May 2024, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in a decision of Annual Meeting of the Council

  Presiding Member Fund - Proposals for Use (Tranche 2)

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• 21 May 2024, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 2 - Outside Bodies

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• 25 January 2024, Blaenau Gwent

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

• 2 March 2026

  Named by Vaughan Gething in the Senedd

  …l for a bypass in this particular location, some of that is also tied up with what might happen at the airfield and whether that's part of the growing space industry in Wales, because there is real potential around the Cardigan bay coastline. All those things matter when the case is made for a new r…

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• 28 March 2023

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  …y on Saturday at the Maindee Triangle, where the Ffrind i Mi project operates, and not only was I lucky enough to be at Tredegar House for the Growing Space project, but, of course, the Member for Newport West invited me to the Road to Nature project, another example of where social prescribing—thos…

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• 28 March 2023

  Named by Jayne Bryant in the Senedd

  …tative care. One example of where this is happening is at the laundry garden at Tredegar House, which is run by the National Trust. Members of Growing Space, a mental health charity, help care for the garden, while members of Woodland Routes to Wellbeing use the garden to gain skills and improve peo…

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• 31 January 2023

  Named by Vaughan Gething in the Senedd

  …result. We're looking for the leaseholders of the site to work with us in actually designing the future, because there are other parts of our growing space sector that are interested in the future use of Llanbedr as a site for them. It's not all about Spaceport Cornwall. You'll have seen the flight…

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4 trustees run the charity.

• Beverley Anne HumphreysChair
• Lindsay Charles Evans
• Peter Lea
• Sandy Blair

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

1071540

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 September 1998

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 MAY 1997.

Company number

03378760This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Council area of its contact address

Merthyr Tydfil

• 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.
• 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: Merthyr Tydfil Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Merthyr Tydfil's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr