Costar Partnership

Costar works across services to increase access to opportunities to bring about social change and improve quality of life for the greater community. CoStar develops a range of environmental, health and wellbeing activities and services to make them available at a grass roots level to improve the lives of our communities.

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

In Wales

• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: The Area of Torfaen.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £197,824 and spent £216,525.

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 34%, from £147,942 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £197,824 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 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 2026: £30,891 from 1 grant. 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.

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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 23 grants to this charity since 2008, worth at least £609,739.

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 1 payment to this charity worth £80, on 24 August 2022.

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 July 2026, Torfaen

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Declarations of Interest / Datganiadau o fuddiant

  Read the meeting record

• 22 July 2026, Torfaen

  Mandy Owen declared an interest that names the charity, at Cabinet

  Grant Provision and Third Sector Major Grants Review / Darpariaeth Grant ac Adolygiad Grantiau Mawr Trydydd Sector

  Recorded as a personal interest.

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• 25 February 2026, Torfaen

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Ethics and Standards Committee

  Dispensations in respect of Members' Small Schemes / Dosbarthu mewn perthynas a Chynlluniau Back yr Aelodau

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• 9 March 2023, Torfaen

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Ethics and Standards Committee

  Dispensations in respect of Members' Small Schemes / Dosbarthu mewn perthynas a Chynlluniau Back yr Aelodau

  Read the meeting record

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Amanda OwenAppointed 1 December 2021
• Julian Simon DavenneAppointed 1 July 2021
• Leanne Lloyd-TolmanAppointed 1 September 2023
• Phillip James Seabourne
• Rosemarie SeabourneAppointed 5 June 2013
• Sandra LongAppointed 12 January 2026

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

1101631

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 January 2004

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 22 APRIL 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 11 DECEMBER 2003 AND 18 JUNE 2010.

Company number

04740680This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.costarcwmbran.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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.
• 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.

• 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
• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen