The Fan Charity

The FAN Charity provides information about setting up a FAN Group and provides the simple but important structure for running FAN Meetings. All FAN Groups are independent but we list them on our website and PR if they run according to the principles of the FAN Charity. All attendees and friendly people are welcome to attend different Groups.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• City of Swansea
• Bridgend
• Vale of Glamorgan

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

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £52,255 and spent £59,019.

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 35%, from £80,495 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £52,255 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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: £2,000 from 1 grant. 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 12 grants to this charity since 2011, worth at least £332,366.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Deepika BaggaAppointed 25 January 2025
• Huda Hashim Mustafa KhirelsiedAppointed 29 January 2020
• Ian ThomsonAppointed 15 April 2016
• Jane BootyAppointed 13 January 2022
• Jane ToobyAppointed 15 July 2014
• Katherine KanyeihambaAppointed 27 October 2020
• Mohammad JaziniAppointed 4 March 2025
• Sara JonesAppointed 15 April 2016
• Sarah Margaret Duncan-JonesAppointed 17 June 2025
• William George Donald SargeantAppointed 1 August 2024

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

1134900

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 March 2010

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 FEBRUARY 2010

Company number

07157056This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.thefancharity.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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

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