Carmarthenshire People First

Carmarthenshire People First is a training and advocacy organisation for adults with Learning Disabilities

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Ceredigion
• Pembrokeshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Carmarthenshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £361,820 and spent £347,295.

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 22%, from £295,466 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £361,820 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 96% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

HDUHB & ICF Fund gave £190,954 in the year to 31 March 2025, 53% 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: Not reported. Government contracts: £153,000 from 5 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 3 funders who gave £248,954 between them. £0 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 15 grants to this charity since 2008, worth at least £908,302.

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.

• 20 March 2026, Pembrokeshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee

  Advocacy - Update of the Regional Advocacy Action Plan

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

• 23 March 2022

  Named by Samuel Kurtz in the Senedd

  I recently had the opportunity to visit Carmarthenshire People First—a fantastic independent charity that's taking a leading role in supporting adults with learning disabilities by providing independent advocacy, training and support to individuals who need it. The charity is led by a fabulous team…

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Simon Oliver RiceChairAppointed 1 April 2013
• Angela Elizabeth EdwardsAppointed 25 November 2016
• Malcolm John CansdaleAppointed 1 April 2023
• Nigel James MillerAppointed 1 April 2013
• Ruth Louise McDougallAppointed 25 November 2016

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

1126539

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 November 2008

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 MARCH 2007 as amended on 22 Jan 2019

Company number

06288369This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.carmarthenshirepeoplefirst.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Carmarthenshire

• 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 2 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: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin