Latch Welsh Children's Cancer Charity

Latch is here for families affected by childhood cancer in Wales, providing bespoke emotional, practical and financial support. The charity is based at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff. We support children with cancer and those undergoing cancer-like treatment who are under the care of the Paediatric Oncology Principal Treament Centre in Wales at the Children's Hospital.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £673,709 and spent £992,649.

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 29%, from £520,583 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £673,709 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 147% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Hodge Foundation gave £37,000 in the year to 31 December 2025, 5% 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 December 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025, the charity named 3 funders who gave £64,250 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2024, worth at least £39,985.

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.

• 18 September 2024

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …children and young people, having a profound impact on the families, devastated by losing a loved one. Last Friday I was invited by LATCH, the Welsh children’s cancer charity, to witness first-hand the incredible work they do at Wales’s children’s hospital in the Heath. LATCH was established in 198…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Susan Agnes Emily Gwyer-RobertsChairAppointed 8 July 2019
• Catrin Hefina AnthonyAppointed 30 June 2026
• Dr Helen Louise KutiAppointed 1 September 2025
• Harriet Angharad MorganAppointed 30 November 2022
• James De Montjoie RudolfAppointed 21 October 2015
• John Robert MilnerAppointed 14 May 2015
• Lyn David HowellAppointed 14 May 2015
• Richard BevanAppointed 14 September 2023
• Sally Ann DavisAppointed 1 September 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, 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

1100949

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 November 2003

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 APRIL 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 03 NOVEMBER 2003 as amended on 30 Nov 2022 as amended on 17 Mar 2025 as amended on 25 Nov 2025

Company number

04735773This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.latchwales.orgAs 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.
• 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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
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