Sands Cymru (Harm Reduction) Ltd

The Charity is a community based agency which exists to provide specialist confidential help and support to drug and alcohol users in Wales:- To help them live healthier lives;- To minimise physical, psychological, social and legal problems related to drug and alcohol use

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: West Glamorgan.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £1,902.

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.

Spending against income

It spent 1,777% of its income in the year to 31 March 2021.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2009, worth at least £646,725.

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.

2 trustees run the charity.

• Joanne McnallyChairAppointed 13 January 2012
• Linda HodgsonAppointed 31 January 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

1138086

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 September 2010

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 15/09/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 14/02/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27/02/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/07/2014

Company number

07265822This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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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