West Wales Domestic Abuse Service Ltd

Provide emergency refuge accommodation to persons and children affected by domestic abuse. We support families in the community with floating support and outreach. Specialist services for children and young persons.Other services include the running of the Freedom Programme, Recovery Toolkit, substance misuse, counselling, homeopathy and fun days out. awareness raising.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, Local

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,173,705 and spent £887,888.

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 60%, from £734,162 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,173,705 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 76% 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

84% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£989,772).

Largest funder

Housing Support Grant gave £376,318 in the year to 31 March 2025, 32% 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: £665,403 from 9 grants. Government contracts: £324,369 from 3 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 12 funders who gave £991,172 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 13 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £439,607.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Professor Katherine WilliamsChairAppointed 24 June 2015
• Alan ClarkeAppointed 15 November 2016
• Caroline BaileyAppointed 6 December 2022
• Dr Susan Elizabeth WilliamsAppointed 2 November 2026
• Elizabeth Margaret Bronwen MorganAppointed 30 April 2019
• Helen Elizabeth GethinAppointed 9 March 2016
• Professor John Robert WilliamsAppointed 12 November 2017

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

1131539

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 September 2009

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/06/2009AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06/09/2012NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 04/02/2014AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/02/2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 04/02/2015

Company number

06926414This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro