Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations

To support Voluntary Organisations by providing the following services; information, advice, training, mentoring, the recruitment of volunteers, community development services to assist in the development of other voluntary organisations and to develop new voluntary services where appropriate. To promote partnership work between statutory and voluntary organisations.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Monmouthshire
• Newport City

Area of benefit in its governing document: County of Monmouthshire, the City of Newport and the County Borough Council Areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly and Torfaen.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £3,014,961 and spent £2,764,226.

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

Down 22%, from £3,863,538 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £3,014,961 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 92% 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

89% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£2,686,038).

Largest funder

Wales Council for Voluntary Action gave £899,760 in the year to 31 March 2025, 30% 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 March 2025: £1,310,936 from 13 grants. Government contracts: £1,375,102 from 12 contracts.

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 March 2025, the charity named 2 funders who gave £899,760 between them. £899,760 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 12 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £4,080,790.

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.

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

• 19 May 2026, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 2 - Appointment to External Bodies

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• 12 March 2026, Torfaen

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Environment Overview & Scrutiny Committee

  Blueprint for Growth / Glasbrint ar gyfer Twf

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• 13 May 2025, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 1 - Appointments to External Bodies

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• 21 May 2024, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appendix 2 - Outside Bodies

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• 14 February 2024, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  NCC External Pressures - Cost of Living

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• 23 November 2023, Blaenau Gwent

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Ordinary Meeting of the Council

  Presiding Member's Announcements

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• 5 October 2023, Newport

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Liaison Meeting with Community Councils

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

• 2 June 2026

  Named by Jayne Bryant in the Senedd

  …public sector around £1.4 billion, and their total contribution to Wales in 2025 was estimated to be at least £9.1 billion. The Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations, GAVO, is the largest county voluntary council in Wales, and it's fast approaching 100 years of supporting volunteers in Newpor…

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• 13 February 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec SJTCW

  Purpose: Cymdeithas Mudiadau Gwirfoddol Gwent / Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations.

  Cymdeithas Mudiadau Gwirfoddol Gwent / Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations

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• 6 March 2024

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …o many children across Gwent. I'm sure that I've drawn attention, as I've just done in response to John Griffiths, to GAVO, the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations. And just to say that we do provide £8.48 million to third sector support Wales, and £734,000 plus is going to GAVO to support…

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• 6 March 2024

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …t building. I hope that we can advise them to access the community facilities programme. They can get help, of course, from the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations, GAVO, because I can see that they need to, hopefully, have access to ensure that the building can be—. There could be improvem…

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14 trustees run the charity.

• Edward Watts MBE DLChair
• Christine Alice WilliamsAppointed 16 January 2012
• Christine DavyAppointed 15 November 2017
• Christopher HawkerAppointed 27 November 2024
• James Hugh LewisAppointed 22 January 2026
• Jeffrey Hambley CuthbertAppointed 22 January 2025
• Jeffrey Hambley CuthbertAppointed 27 November 2024
• Leonard John CasleyAppointed 22 January 2026
• Lisa Victoria WatkinsAppointed 22 January 2026
• Olakunle Olufemi DavidAppointed 22 January 2026
• Robert LynbeckAppointed 27 November 2024
• Robert Malcolm DuttAppointed 15 November 2017
• Rosalie Sian KingAppointed 22 January 2026

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

1113558

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 April 2006

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 OCTOBER 2005

Company number

05590517This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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.
• 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.

• 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
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Newport Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Newport's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Casnewydd Islwyn