Pembrokeshire Action to Combat Hardship (Patch)

Relief of poverty in Pembrokeshire through distribution of food parcels, small household items and clothing.

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

In Wales

• Pembrokeshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £114,730 and spent £122,184.

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 55%, from £255,080 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £114,730 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 106% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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 2025: £18,970 from 2 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2019.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew Mark Rhys-OwensAppointed 15 May 2024
• David Andrew LambAppointed 17 April 2024
• Ellen PictonAppointed 5 February 2025
• Emrys Christopher OsborneAppointed 3 November 2017
• Hayley Suzanne WoodAppointed 16 November 2022
• Martyn John OughtonAppointed 16 December 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, 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

1124949

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

14 July 2008

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 SEPTEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED 10 DECEMBER 2009.AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 NOV 2009

Company number

06365713This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Pembrokeshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Pembrokeshire's economy in figures
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