The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

For 31 years the acknowledged charity for recognising and preserving the exceptional achievements over the course of their careers of Welsh sportsmen and sportswomen in any theatre of sport. The charity owns a large collection of significant memorabilia from Welsh sporting history. Each year at the Annual Dinner additions are made to the Roll of Honour, which now stands at 150 from 26 sports.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales and Elsewhere:

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £29,727 and spent £22,733.

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 236%, from £8,860 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £29,727 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 76% of its income in the year to 31 March 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.

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.

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.

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

• 17 July 2025, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Announcements/Personal Matters

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

• 22 November 2023

  Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd

  …Alf retiring from football, working as a security officer for the National Coal Board. Alf passed away in 1990 and was inducted into the Welsh sports hall of fame in 2006. He is arguably remembered today as Aberaman’s favourite son, as a skilled footballer who gained the moniker ‘king of the sliding…

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• 25 October 2023

  Named by Alun Davies in the Senedd

  …9. More than 30 years on from his death, Roy Francis is now recognised with a statue in his home town. In 2018, he was inducted into the Welsh sports hall of fame. This follows the unveiling of a statue of fellow Welsh black rugby league players Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan, along with Gus Risman, i…

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• 14 September 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for AST

  Purpose: Welsh Sports Hall of Fame Annual Dinner.

  Welsh Sports Hall of Fame Annual Dinner

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• 12 January 2022

  Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd

  …Wales, helping thousands of young Welsh citizens achieve their sporting ambitions. Ron achieved an MBE in 2001 and was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame in 2013. Perhaps his greatest honour came in 2018, when the new £3 million athletics track in Aberdare was named after him. Ron sadly die…

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Philip DaviesChairAppointed 21 June 2017
• Carolyn Hitt
• David CobnerAppointed 1 January 2011
• Dylan Jones
• Jeff AndrewsAppointed 1 April 2012
• Joseph James TownsAppointed 14 May 2018
• Kris HorriganAppointed 6 September 2023
• Lynn Davies Cbe.mbeAppointed 23 January 2018
• Nicky PiperAppointed 30 June 2006
• Robert Cole

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

1087990

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 August 2001

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 16 JULY 2001.

Website

www.welsh-sports-hall-of-fame.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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth