Menter Caerdydd

MAE MENTER CAERDYDD YN HYRWYDDO'R GYMRAEG DRWY DDARPARU GWASANAETHAU CHWARAE AGORED, DARPARIAETH I DEULUOEDD, DARPARIAETH GOFAL A CHLYBIAU I BLANT, RHAGLEN HYFFORDDIANT A CHYRSIAU OEDOLION, GWEITHGAREDDAU CYMDEITHASOL, GWEITHGAREDDAU I DDYSGWYR A HYBU'R DEFNYDD O'R GYMRAEG YN Y SECTOR BREIFAT.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice Cyngor Sir Caerdydd

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £985,484 and spent £958,823.

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.

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Income over time

Up 105%, from £480,159 in the year to 5 April 2021 to £985,484 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 97% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

95% of its income in the year to 5 April 2021 came from government grants and contracts (£454,825).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £245,086 in the year to 5 April 2025, 25% 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 5 April 2025: £494,133 from 8 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 5 April 2025, the charity named 7 funders who gave £454,528 between them. £422,528 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 17 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £234,350.

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 23 payments to this charity worth £1,669,506 between 8 January 2021 and 19 June 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.

• 23 May 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Welsh Language Standards: Annual Report 2023-24

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• 17 March 2022, Cardiff

  Named in a decision of Council

  Composite Notice of Motion

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• 27 January 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Notice of Motion 1

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

• 26 January 2022

  Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd

  …eople who attend Tafwyl, there are additional costs attached to that, and we regularly hear in this Senedd about costs increasing in general. Menter Caerdydd believe that the cost of staging Tafwyl this year will be some 20 per cent higher than the figure for 2019. Menter Caerdydd has to secure that…

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11 trustees run the charity.

• Sian Verona Meredith PooleChairAppointed 23 November 2020
• Ceri JamesAppointed 26 November 2024
• Elan Ial JonesAppointed 26 November 2024
• Gwenno Mared GeorgeAppointed 23 November 2020
• Huw Onllwyn JonesAppointed 28 November 2017
• Ieuan Gwyn RobertsAppointed 20 November 2019
• Ilan JonesAppointed 26 November 2024
• Liam EllisAppointed 28 November 2018
• Mari PhillipsAppointed 20 November 2019
• Rhian Huws WilliamsAppointed 28 November 2018
• Sion WilliamsAppointed 20 November 2019

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

1098606

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 July 2003

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 OCTOBER 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19 JUNE 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 SEP 2020

Company number

04576565This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.mentercaerdydd.cymruAs 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.
• 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: 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