Institute of Welsh Affairs

The Institute of Welsh Affairs is a membership-based think-tank and policy research institute aimed at promoting new thinking on Welsh issues. Its activities include the publication of research reports and discussion papers, and the organisation of seminars and conferences throughout Wales covering a range of interests, including the economy, education, health, and the environment.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £202,561 and spent £216,437.

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 55%, from £449,722 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £202,561 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 107% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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.

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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 12 grants to this charity since 2008, worth at least £764,084.

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.

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

• 20 October 2026

  Named by Elfyn Llwyd in the Senedd

  …al and international levels in order to understand what is happening around us and our role in it. The expert panel on broadcasting, the Institute of Welsh Affairs and the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales have all acknowledged the need for a stronger voice for Wales on br…

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• 16 September 2026

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …committee yet the range of evidence that I referred to during my question session with the committee. I referred to the IWA report, the Institute of Welsh Affairs, which was independent and was not commissioned by Government. I referred to academic research that was also not commissioned by Governm…

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• 14 September 2026

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …e these recommendations, so I'm implementing those recommendations. It comes from other reviews and reports there have been, i.e. by the Institute of Welsh Affairs. In the fifth Senedd, this committee looked at it in terms of the devolution of broadcasting. Therefore, I think it's just a matter of l…

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• 14 September 2026

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  Well, perhaps we could share some of the reports that have been published by the Institute of Welsh Affairs and so on, if the committee would find it helpful to really understand why we're actually listening to experts in this field, why academic research shows that, actually, Wales is missing out i…

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Gwendolyn Helena SterkChairAppointed 11 December 2024
• Anthony PicklesAppointed 24 May 2018
• Ben Gordon JoakimAppointed 18 May 2023
• Dr Elizabeth Zaidee HaywoodAppointed 18 May 2023
• Helen Francis Mortlock PearceAppointed 16 December 2016
• Kelly-Marie Huxley-RobertsAppointed 18 May 2023
• Lauren Maeve McEvattAppointed 11 December 2024
• Shayoni Sarkar LynnAppointed 11 December 2024

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

1078435

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 December 1999

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 JULY 1987 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 20 JUNE 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 DEC 2006 as amended on 25 Nov 2020

Company number

02151006This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.iwa.walesAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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