The Merthyr Tydfil and District Naturalists' Society

Society Objectives:-1. To promote animals and plants of the countryside, objects of geological, historical and archaeological interest.2. To promote the formation of Nature Reserves and to assist in their supervision.3. To foster interest in Nature Conservation through public meetings, film shows, exhibitions, publication of books, our Annual Newsletter, leaflets and general communication.

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

In Wales

• Powys
• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Merthyr Tydfil
• Torfaen
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice Merthyr Tydfil and District

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £48,173 and spent £54,449.

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 159%, from £18,622 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £48,173 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Specific SPF Funding gave £35,591 in the year to 31 August 2025, 74% 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 August 2025: £35,591 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £35,591. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £99,900.

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Mrs Sue TaylorChair
• Alison Richards
• Elisabeth BrooksAppointed 23 November 2019
• Gareth Evans
• Jemma RichardsAppointed 5 February 2025
• Lisa HandscombAppointed 5 February 2025
• Robert Berian Jones
• Robert TaylorAppointed 23 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

1106927

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 November 2004

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 MAY 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 4 NOVEMBER 2004AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05 JUN 2019

Company number

04450556This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.merthyrnats.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the 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