Porthmadog U3a

To advance the education of middle-aged and older people who are not in full-time gainful employment in Porthmadog and the surrounding area and to provide facilities for leisure time and recreational activities.

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

In Wales

• Gwynedd

Area of benefit in its governing document: Dwyfor and Meirionnydd and the Surrounding Locality.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £5,440 and spent £5,171.

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 103%, from £2,674 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £5,440 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 95% 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 2024: 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £3,736, awarded in 2010.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Jillian Helen LawrenceChairAppointed 2 June 2025
• Diane Frances JacksonAppointed 20 May 2024
• Juliet Mary Charles PritchardAppointed 18 May 2026
• Margaret LeeAppointed 2 June 2025
• Mary CollardAppointed 15 November 2021
• Maureen Joy CraneAppointed 2 June 2025
• Michael John BirdAppointed 25 May 2022
• Patricia NeweyAppointed 30 November 2015
• Philip Albert EcksteinAppointed 20 May 2024
• William Robert Horner AndrewsAppointed 22 May 2023

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, 4 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

1112080

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 November 2005

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 26 JUNE 2002 AS AMENDED 26 FEBRUARY 2003.AS AMENDED ON 22 FEB 2017

Website

www.porthmadogu3a.org.As the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Gwynedd

• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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