3gs Development Trust

We are the main delivery organisation for the Welsh Assembly's Communities First Programme in the electoral wards of Gurnos and Penydarren in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil. Some of our priorities include delivering regeneration programmes in the area and helping the community to become more involved with the local service providers i.e. local health board, local authority, schools etc.

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

In Wales

• Merthyr Tydfil

Area of benefit in its governing document: In the New and Old Gurnos and the Galon Uchaf Estates in the Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, and the Surrounding Neighbourhoods.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £23,498 and spent £23,146.

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 82%, from £131,000 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £23,498 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 99% 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 6 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £324,892.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher DaviesAppointed 12 May 2021
• Leane SaundersAppointed 27 November 2025
• Lee James DaviesAppointed 12 May 2021
• Rita Smith
• Suzanne FoleyAppointed 27 November 2025

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, 2 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

1100265

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 October 2003

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 AUGUST 1999.

Company number

03831737This 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• 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