Voluntary Action Merthyr Tydfil

To provide a unique, quality service which supports, represents and helps develop third sector organisations and volunteering in the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil

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

In Wales

• Merthyr Tydfil

Area of benefit in its governing document: The County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil As Defined in the Local Government (wales) Act 1994 and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,080,769 and spent £961,172.

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 11%, from £1,212,846 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,080,769 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 89% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

CwmTaf Local Health Board gave £609,748 in the year to 31 March 2025, 56% 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: £137,614 from 3 grants. 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 March 2025, the charity named 5 funders who gave £1,025,130 between them. £961,553 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 5 grants to this charity since 2009, worth at least £1,243,956.

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 1 payment to this charity worth £111,843, on 11 February 2021.

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.

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

• 5 May 2026, Merthyr Tydfil

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Scrutiny: Healthier Merthyr Tydfil

  Overview of Adults and Children's Mental Health Services

  Read the meeting record

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Carol EvansAppointed 2 February 2026
• Dr Victoria WincklerAppointed 2 February 2026
• Gareth Gerwyn MarshallAppointed 27 September 2025
• Julia BurgessAppointed 27 September 2025
• Kayleigh Anne Nor-valAppointed 16 November 2018
• Michael RonanAppointed 20 November 2019
• Nicola Barbara Mahoney
• Ryan JamesAppointed 27 September 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, 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

1118403

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 March 2007

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19 JANUARY 2007. as amended on 23 Jun 2022

Company number

06058360This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.vamt.netAs 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 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.

• 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
• 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