The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales Limited

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales works to protect all forms of wildlife and its habitats on its nature reserves and in the wider countryside, working at local and national level.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice South and West Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £5,286,256 and spent £3,450,738.

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 95%, from £2,709,100 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £5,286,256 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 65% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

31% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,636,449).

Largest funder

Aviva gave £1,195,835 in the year to 31 March 2025, 23% 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: £1,507,449 from 3 grants. Government contracts: £129,000 from 10 contracts.

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 2025, the charity named 9 funders who gave £2,833,169 between them. £1,450,762 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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 14 grants to this charity since 1997, worth at least £5,233,081.

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 21 payments to this charity worth £221,668 between 7 February 2024 and 30 March 2026.

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.

• 22 September 2025, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Gower National Landscape Advisory Group

  Partners Reports and Updates.

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• 15 July 2024, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Climate Change & Nature Recovery Service Transformation Committee

  Presentation - Local Places for Nature (LPfN) Programme - Local Nature Partnership Grant 2023-25.

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• 19 July 2023, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  To receive the following Questions from:

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

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

• 18 January 2023

  Named by Lesley Griffiths in the Senedd

  Our nature network programme is funding projects that will support pollinators, including the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales healthy and resilient grasslands project, which aims to create a network of high-quality grasslands across 11 protected sites. This builds on our action plan for polli…

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• 16 March 2022

  Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd

  …hat potential impacts to already struggling wildlife, such as the kittiwake, are better understood.' Similarly, Lisa Morgan of the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales has stated that the location, scale and type of marine renewable energy schemes should be determined by proper environmental asses…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Jenny HughesAppointed 17 November 2022
• John Hugh Alexander TusaAppointed 21 November 2024
• Leonora Hope ThomsonAppointed 18 November 2021
• Lucy Anne GriffithsAppointed 17 November 2022
• Michail John DaviesAppointed 18 November 2021
• Paul CulyerAppointed 16 November 2019
• Raoul Evelyn BhambralAppointed 21 November 2024
• Rosey GrandageAppointed 8 May 2018
• Stuart BainAppointed 15 December 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.

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

1091562

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 April 2002

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23/03/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/11/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2015 as amended on 20 Nov 2025

Company number

04398959This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.welshwildlife.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg