Registered charity 1104191

The Bevan Foundation

What it does

The Bevan Foundation develops solutions to inequality and injustice, aiming to tackle the root causes of social and economic problems, especially in Wales. We use evidence to develop new policies and practice, and encourage debate by publishing our own and others? work and organising events.

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

Its charitable purposes

(1) TO ADVANCE IN WALES THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES AND THEIR EFFECT ON PUBLIC POLICY AND THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS;(II) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN THESE FIELDS AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;(III) TO PURSUE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE WITHIN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE TRUSTEES") SHALL DETERMINE.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: General charitable purposes
Education and training
Preventing or relieving poverty
Economic and community development, and employment
Other charitable purposes
Who it helps: The general public
How it works: Other charitable activities

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

Elsewhere

Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: National

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £620,451 and spent £466,236.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 March 2025	£620,451	£466,236	9	1
31 March 2024	£434,400	£407,825	Not reported	2
31 March 2023	£424,604	£394,620	Not reported	2
31 March 2022	£350,134	£345,350	Not reported	3
31 March 2021	£524,280	£428,106	7	Not reported

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.

Financial position

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 18%, from £524,280 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £620,451 in the year to 31 March 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 75% 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: 2% of its income in the year to 31 March 2023 came from government grants and contracts (£9,065).
Largest funder: Joseph Rowntree Foundation gave £146,636 in the year to 31 March 2024, 34% 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 funding, as the charity reported it

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £24,445 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 March 2025	£24,445 from 1 grant	Not reported
31 March 2024	Not reported	Not reported
31 March 2023	£4,925 from 1 grant	£4,140 from 1 contract
31 March 2022	£8,435 from 2 grants	Not reported
31 March 2021	£153,287 from 4 grants	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.

Where its income came from in the year ending 31 March 2025

Donations and legacies£584,863
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£25,071
Investments£9,717
Other£800

From the charity's annual return. Only charities with income over £500,000 give this breakdown.

Who funds it, according to its accounts

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024, the charity named 8 funders who gave £324,861 between them. £9,877 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.

Money received from each named funder, by accounts year
Funder	Type	Mar 2024	Mar 2023
Joseph Rowntree Foundation	Trust, company or other	£146,636	£129,085
Justice Together	Trust, company or other	£52,393	£23,815
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales	Trust, company or other	£44,153
Modelling Poverty	Trust, company or other	£31,000
Waterloo Foundation	Trust, company or other	£17,500	£17,500
Nationwide Foundation	Trust, company or other	£12,500
The Which? Fund, funded by the Consumers' Association	Trust, company or other	£10,802
The National Lottery Community Fund	National Lottery	£9,877
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales Welfare Programme	Trust, company or other		£40,473
A B Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other		£20,000
Standard Life Foundation	Trust, company or other		£17,982
TNLCF- NRPF in the cost of living crisis	Trust, company or other		£9,921
TNLCF	Trust, company or other		£9,813
Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust	Trust, company or other		£7,330
Welsh Government	Welsh Government		£4,925
Wales Council for Voluntary Action	Other public body		£2,240
Lipman Milliband Trust Work	Trust, company or other		£1,860

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.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 16 grants to this charity since 2017, worth at least £779,786.

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.

By funder

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales£200,085, 4 grants
LEF£155,000, 1 grant
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£155,000, 2 grants
Justice Together Initiative£100,024, 1 grant
Friends Provident Foundation£70,150, 1 grant
The National Lottery Community Fund£59,527, 5 grants
A B Charitable Trust£20,000, 1 grant
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000, 1 grant

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
11 Feb 2025	The National Lottery Community FundWALES COL - Cost of living guides for people with NRPF	£19,932
29 Nov 2024	LEFUpholding human rights in Wales during significant political and constitutional change	£155,000
19 Oct 2023	Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesGrant to Bevan Foundation	£139,193
21 Mar 2023	The National Lottery Community FundWales COL - Supporting people with NRPF in the cost of living crisis	£9,921
14 Dec 2022	Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesOne off gift towards cost of living crisis to Bevan Foundation	£2,250
6 Oct 2022	A B Charitable TrustA grant to The Bevan Foundation	£20,000
23 Sept 2022	Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesGrant to Bevan Foundation	£19,512
11 Jul 2022	The National Lottery Community FundCOVID-19 - Solutions to high housing costs after covid	£9,813
8 Jun 2022	Justice Together InitiativeBetter access to fair, timely and good quality immigration advice in Wales	£100,024
7 Dec 2020	Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesWelfare grant to Bevan Foundation	£39,130

All 16 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
22 Jun 2020	The National Lottery Community FundCOVID-19 - Pathways out of pandemic	£9,985
16 Mar 2020	Paul Hamlyn FoundationEmbedding lived experience in migration policy debates in Wales	£95,000
18 Dec 2019	The National Lottery Community FundWhy Wales is my home: inclusion of EU migrants	£9,876
1 Jan 2019	Friends Provident FoundationThe Bevan Foundation-Building Economic Resilience in the South Wales Valleys	£70,150
11 Dec 2017	Paul Hamlyn FoundationEnhancing integration and migration policies in Wales	£60,000
3 May 2017	Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award	£20,000

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £48,953, on 2 September 2025.

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data
Public body	Paid	Payments	Financial years
Welsh Governmentits spending data	£48,953	1	2025/26

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.

In council meetings

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

25 September 2025, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Care Scrutiny Committee
EMPTY HOMES
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29 July 2025, Powys
Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet
Powys Child Poverty Task Force Update
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11 June 2025, Neath Port Talbot
Named in a decision of Council
Notice of Motion under Section 10 of Part 4 (Rules of Procedure) the Council's Constitution
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21 March 2024, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
NORTH WALES GROWTH DEAL - QUARTER 3 PERFORMANCE REPORT 2023-24
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28 September 2023, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of The Council
QUESTIONS
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21 September 2023, Gwynedd
Named in a decision of Care Scrutiny Committee
ESTABLISHING A ONE STOP SHOP FOR HOUSING ENQUIRIES
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14 September 2023, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee
DIGITAL PLAN 2023-28
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9 February 2022, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
STATE OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH DEBATE
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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

22 October 2026
Named by Elyn Stephens in the Senedd
Thank you, Chair. I'm going to ask about taxation. The Bevan Foundation has declared that 12 of the 19 local authorities do say that they are charging the premium and they say where the revenue is going. What is your impression as to whether local authorities are spending the revenue raised by the c…
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7 October 2026
Named by Tom Montgomery in the Senedd
…on a three-year review of the national planning framework. Wales cannot afford another three years adrift. The backlog is already severe. The Bevan Foundation estimates that Wales is short of some 9,600 homes. That is the equivalent of building another Llandudno, another Bangor, nearly building a wh…
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1 October 2026
Named by Wendy Dearden in the Senedd
I'm Wendy Dearden. I lead on the housing work at the Bevan Foundation. To declare, I'm also a former empty homes officer, so I kind of come with many different hats to this, I feel, today.
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1 October 2026
Named by Osian Jones in the Senedd
…n scheme. It is, of course, limited to town-centre properties. So, there are limitations when we deal with more rural areas. I think that the Bevan Foundation recently did work on empty properties with churches, which is a very interesting read. And, yes, trying to work more closely with those types…
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30 September 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…hat not only on families in poverty, but also in terms of gender inequality that affects women mostly. You mentioned the analysis made by the Bevan Foundation in terms of the new model that should, or the best model that could, provide childcare to all in a way that is fair and reaches the aim. I ag…
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30 September 2026
Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd
…ts last five-year term in Government. Ashamedly, poverty has seeped throughout our nation. Whilst Flying Start was a good starting point, the Bevan Foundation warned that relying on this framework risks unequal access and lacks the flexibility that parents need. The phrase 'postcode lottery' has bec…
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30 September 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…we design a pilot that can demonstrate that. That expert group I was referring to earlier, which I'm co-chairing with Steffan Evans from the Bevan Foundation, is meeting regularly, as I said, to help with that design, help with the implementation, so it launches on a real sound and evidence-based f…
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30 September 2026
Named by Anna Nicholl in the Senedd
Diolch, Cabinet Minister. A 2023 report by the Bevan Foundation found that Ceredigion ranks second in child poverty levels across Wales, with Pembrokeshire not far behind. Crisis has also highlighted that many families in my constituency face significant gaps between their incomes and essential livi…
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8 September 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: CMLGHP
Purpose: Bevan Foundation.
Bevan Foundation
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21 July 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DMT
Purpose: Bevan Foundation.
Bevan Foundation
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18 June 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFMCMSJE
Purpose: Intro Steffan Evans, Bevan Foundation.
Intro Steffan Evans, Bevan Foundation
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16 June 2026
Named in a registered interest of Sarah Murphy, Member of the Senedd
Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.
Information relevant to entry: The Bevan Foundation - Member
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10 June 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…reducing child poverty. It helps parents to return to work, it gives that income to families. The evidence is clear, from bodies such as the Bevan Foundation, Quorum and the Women's Equality Network Wales, that investing in childcare supports getting parents back into work, it raises income, and pr…
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10 June 2026
Named by Sarah Cooper-Lesadd in the Senedd
…o measure whether your flagship policy lifts a single family out of hardship. The Deputy First Minister highlighted that Steffan Evans of the Bevan Foundation will co-chair her new expert group on tackling child poverty. Of course, we all welcome that expertise, which is extremely important, but thi…
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10 June 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…soon as that preparation is complete, we'll be rolling it out. As I announced yesterday in my statement, I've asked Dr Steffan Evans from the Bevan Foundation to join me in co-chairing that group. I've asked to co-chair it, because I want to make sure that we do this work at pace and I want to make…
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9 June 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…ade a huge difference. When we saw the cost-of-living crisis peak, how glad we were that that was in place. Of course, we saw a report by the Bevan Foundation, didn't we, just at the end of the last term, looking forward to this new Senedd. What really took my attention in that report was that many…
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9 June 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…to lead on the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of Cynnal. I'm pleased to confirm today that Steffan Evans, chief executive of the Bevan Foundation, has agreed to co-chair this expert group with me, providing the strong leadership, robust scrutiny and collaborative working needed to take…
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26 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Siân Gwenllian, Member of the Senedd
Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.
Information relevant to entry: I am an inactive member of the following: NUJ (annual membership fee), Gwasg Honno (no membership fee), Bevan Foundation (annual subscription).
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25 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Sioned Williams, Member of the Senedd
Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.
Information relevant to entry: Subscriber – Bevan Foundation
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21 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Vikki Howells, Member of the Senedd
Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.
Information relevant to entry: Member of the Bevan Foundation
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2 March 2026
Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd
But in terms of local government, I'm not sure whether an update on that report from the Bevan Foundation is available, but clearly this is something where we can support our scheme particularly for those caught up in terms of violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence, but no recour…
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2 March 2026
Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd
…report was published in 2022, you issued guidance to all local authorities to implement a local no recourse to public funds pathway, but the Bevan Foundation looked at this in February 2024 and found that no local authority had implemented the NRPF, the no recourse to public funds pathway. I just w…
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2 March 2026
Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd
…s, doesn't it, our objective to have a more equal Wales. And it's very interesting, looking at all the evidence papers, particularly from the Bevan Foundation and Policy in Practice, about—. I mean, even they say that there isn't one single route, one lever of the levers that we've got in Wales that…
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24 February 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
…hat is in Westminster's hands, they have at last, and we welcome that, lifted the two-child limit. But anti-poverty organisations such as the Bevan Foundation have suggested that a decrease of around 3 to 4 per cent in child poverty levels in Wales will be the impact of that change, and they're call…
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21 January 2026
Named by John Griffiths in the Senedd
…progress in implementing recommendations from the Welsh Government's affordable housing taskforce. Our first panel this morning are from the Bevan Foundation, Shelter Cymru and the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru. I'm very pleased to welcome, joining us virtually, Matthew Dicks, who is directo…
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Trustees

12 trustees run the charity.

Gavin Paul Billy ThompsonChairAppointed 15 June 2023
Benjamin Gregory SaltmarshAppointed 2 July 2026
Dr Eleanor Rose HallamAppointed 2 July 2026
Dr Laura Olufemi ShobiyeAppointed 2 July 2024
Dr Sally PowerAppointed 17 May 2018
Emma Caroline HowellsAppointed 2 July 2026
John Beresford ChownAppointed 29 January 2020
Lynne HughesAppointed 17 May 2018
Manon Sara JohnesAppointed 2 July 2026
Rusna BegumAppointed 2 July 2024
Sabrina Rahim DubashAppointed 2 July 2024
Tomos Rhys OwenAppointed 2 July 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Filing record

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 March 2025	31 January 2026	Received 16 December 2025, 46 days early	Received 16 December 2025
31 March 2024	31 January 2025	Received 17 December 2024, 45 days early	Received 17 December 2024
31 March 2023	31 January 2024	Received 16 January 2024, 15 days early	Received 16 January 2024
31 March 2022	31 January 2023	Received 19 October 2022, 104 days early	Received 19 October 2022
31 March 2021	31 January 2022	Received 29 November 2021, 63 days early	Received 29 November 2021

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.

About this charity

Charity number: 1104191
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 8 June 2004
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 MAR 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 APR 2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 NOV 2016
Company number: 04175018This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House
Website: www.bevanfoundation.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Merthyr Tydfil

Sources

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.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 March 2025

£620,451

£466,236

31 March 2024

£434,400

£407,825

Not reported

31 March 2023

£424,604

£394,620

Not reported

31 March 2022

£350,134

£345,350

Not reported

31 March 2021

£524,280

£428,106

Not reported

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 March 2025

£24,445 from 1 grant

Not reported

31 March 2024

Not reported

31 March 2023

£4,925 from 1 grant

£4,140 from 1 contract

31 March 2022

£8,435 from 2 grants

Not reported

31 March 2021

£153,287 from 4 grants

Not reported

Funder

Type

Mar 2024

Mar 2023

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Trust, company or other

£146,636

£129,085

Justice Together

Trust, company or other

£52,393

£23,815

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales

Trust, company or other

£44,153

Modelling Poverty

Trust, company or other

£31,000

Waterloo Foundation

Trust, company or other

£17,500

Nationwide Foundation

Trust, company or other

£12,500

The Which? Fund, funded by the Consumers' Association

Trust, company or other

£10,802

The National Lottery Community Fund

National Lottery

£9,877

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales Welfare Programme

Trust, company or other

£40,473

A B Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£20,000

Standard Life Foundation

Trust, company or other

£17,982

TNLCF- NRPF in the cost of living crisis

Trust, company or other

£9,921

TNLCF

Trust, company or other

£9,813

Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust

Trust, company or other

£7,330

Welsh Government

£4,925

Wales Council for Voluntary Action

Other public body

£2,240

Lipman Milliband Trust Work

Trust, company or other

£1,860

Awarded

Grant

Amount

11 Feb 2025

The National Lottery Community FundWALES COL - Cost of living guides for people with NRPF

£19,932

29 Nov 2024

LEFUpholding human rights in Wales during significant political and constitutional change

£155,000

19 Oct 2023

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesGrant to Bevan Foundation

£139,193

21 Mar 2023

The National Lottery Community FundWales COL - Supporting people with NRPF in the cost of living crisis

£9,921

14 Dec 2022

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesOne off gift towards cost of living crisis to Bevan Foundation

£2,250

6 Oct 2022

A B Charitable TrustA grant to The Bevan Foundation

£20,000

23 Sept 2022

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesGrant to Bevan Foundation

£19,512

11 Jul 2022

The National Lottery Community FundCOVID-19 - Solutions to high housing costs after covid

£9,813

8 Jun 2022

Justice Together InitiativeBetter access to fair, timely and good quality immigration advice in Wales

£100,024

7 Dec 2020

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and WalesWelfare grant to Bevan Foundation

£39,130

Awarded

Grant

Amount

22 Jun 2020

The National Lottery Community FundCOVID-19 - Pathways out of pandemic

£9,985

16 Mar 2020

Paul Hamlyn FoundationEmbedding lived experience in migration policy debates in Wales

£95,000

18 Dec 2019

The National Lottery Community FundWhy Wales is my home: inclusion of EU migrants

£9,876

1 Jan 2019

Friends Provident FoundationThe Bevan Foundation-Building Economic Resilience in the South Wales Valleys

£70,150

11 Dec 2017

Paul Hamlyn FoundationEnhancing integration and migration policies in Wales

£60,000

3 May 2017

Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award

£20,000

Public body

Paid

Payments

Financial years

Welsh Governmentits spending data

£48,953

2025/26

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 March 2025

31 January 2026

Received 16 December 2025, 46 days early

Received 16 December 2025

31 March 2024

31 January 2025

Received 17 December 2024, 45 days early

Received 17 December 2024

31 March 2023

31 January 2024

Received 16 January 2024, 15 days early

Received 16 January 2024

31 March 2022

31 January 2023

Received 19 October 2022, 104 days early

Received 19 October 2022

31 March 2021

31 January 2022

Received 29 November 2021, 63 days early

Received 29 November 2021