Challenge Wales

Provision of Sail Training to Young People

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice: National and Overseas .

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 January 2025, it had income of £315,165 and spent £240,585.

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 40%, from £224,378 in the year to 31 January 2021 to £315,165 in the year to 31 January 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 76% of its income in the year to 31 January 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

3% of its income in the year to 31 January 2023 came from government grants and contracts (£5,764).

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 January 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 15 grants to this charity since 2013, worth at least £510,454.

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 4 payments to this charity worth £3,720 between 15 October 2022 and 2 October 2025.

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.

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

• 30 September 2026

  Named by Andrew RT Davies in the Senedd

  …to highly skilled careers. We know that there is a skills challenge across Wales, so we want to use the defence sector to address this skills challenge. Wales currently receives around 3 per cent of the UK Ministry of Defence expenditure. There is an opportunity to increase that, but we will not get…

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• 1 December 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …er these discussions 25 years ago when I was the first health Minister, and I feel—. At one point, we had a very good strategy called 'Health Challenge Wales', which was actually about aiming at helping people to live more healthily. And we had a health inequalities fund, which we focused on tacklin…

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• 14 February 2022

  Named by Matthew Kennedy in the Senedd

  …in terms of our reflections on the programme, but, certainly, in terms of capturing good evaluation, robust monitoring data has been a real challenge. The Wales Audit Office are really, really clear that, actually, we haven't had a really clear understanding of where a household was to where they go…

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4 trustees run the charity.

• David Peter ChapmanAppointed 7 December 2015
• Helen PhillipsAppointed 5 August 2019
• Kathy MasonAppointed 11 November 2021
• Susan WentAppointed 7 May 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, 3 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

1111859

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 October 2005

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25/01/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/09/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/06/2011

Company number

05342397This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.challengewales.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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.
• 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 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth