Registered charity 1138342

Swansea University

What it does

The University advances learning and knowledge by teaching and research, and engages in activities to promote and contribute to cultural, social and economic development within Wales and beyond.

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

Its charitable purposes

ARTICLE 3 OF THE UNIVERSITY'S 2007 SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER STATES THAT "THE OBJECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH, AND TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE AND CONTRIBUTE TO CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN WALES AND BEYOND."

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: Education and training
Who it helps: The general public
How it works: Provides services
Sponsors or carries out research

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

In Wales

City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 July 2025, it had income of £325,645,000 and spent £373,030,000.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 July 2025	£325,645,000	£373,030,000	3,448	76
31 July 2024	£381,610,000	£298,779,000	3,661	97
31 July 2023	£412,628,000	£348,691,000	3,714	90
31 July 2022	£340,086,000	£447,629,000	3,546	131
31 July 2021	£360,665,000	£332,920,000	3,627	154

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.

Financial position

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 10%, from £360,665,000 in the year to 31 July 2021 to £325,645,000 in the year to 31 July 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 115% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.
Money from government: 9% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£28,917,982).
Largest funder: Medr gave £29,995,000 in the year to 31 July 2025, 9% 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 funding, as the charity reported it

Government grants in the year ending 31 July 2025: £9,257,434 from 81 grants. Government contracts: £19,660,548 from 126 contracts.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 July 2025	£9,257,434 from 81 grants	£19,660,548 from 126 contracts
31 July 2024	£6,620,269 from 32 grants	£16,033,806 from 115 contracts
31 July 2023	£3,015,661 from 14 grants	£21,090,170 from 124 contracts
31 July 2022	£323,585 from 3 grants	£15,913,527 from 151 contracts
31 July 2021	£7,979,730 from 6 grants	£12,088,495 from 115 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.

Where its income came from in the year ending 31 July 2025

Donations and legacies£460,000
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£328,373,000
Investments£4,804,000

From the charity's annual return. Only charities with income over £500,000 give this breakdown.

Who funds it, according to its accounts

In its accounts for the year ending 31 July 2025, the charity named 5 funders who gave £55,689,000 between them. £54,526,000 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.

Money received from each named funder, by accounts year
Funder	Type	Jul 2025	Jul 2024	Jul 2023
Medr	Other public body	£29,995,000
Educational contracts with the NHS and HEIW	NHS	£16,328,000	£14,389,000
NHS income in respect of the College of Medicine	NHS	£8,203,000	£7,632,000	£5,055,000
HERC Capital grant	Trust, company or other	£1,163,000	£3,371,000	£2,021,000
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales	Other public body		£28,598,000	£28,891,000
UK Research and Innovation	UK Government		£2,134,000	£2,031,000

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Charities whose accounts say they funded it

Funder	Year ending	Amount
Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	31 March 2025	£401,896
Cancer Research Wales	31 March 2026	£328,819
Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	31 March 2024	£507,694
Cancer Research Wales	31 March 2025	£759,798
Cancer Research Wales	31 March 2024	£167,967

Grants paid to this charity, as other charities' accounts record them. Read by the same AI accounts reader.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 67 grants to this charity since 1996, worth at least £56,695,512.

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.

By funder

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£53,248,881, 39 grants
The National Lottery Heritage Fund£1,010,548, 10 grants
The National Lottery Community Fund£994,721, 4 grants
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation£525,000, 5 grants
Nuffield Foundation£473,013, 2 grants
LEF£205,510, 2 grants
Road Safety Trust£124,322, 2 grants
Nesta£63,517, 2 grants
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000, 1 grant

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
8 Sept 2026	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"#HP ArchaeoMargam II: A Roman Villa for All (short title: ArchaeoMargam)"	£248,648
8 Sept 2025	Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award	£50,000
5 Feb 2025	Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	£240,000
6 Jun 2024	Nuffield FoundationGrant to Swansea University	£177,868
15 Jun 2023	Nuffield FoundationGrant to Swansea University	£295,145
4 Apr 2023	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"South Wales Miners’ Library: Feasibility Study"	£50,000
27 Feb 2023	Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	£10,000
4 Oct 2022	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"A Swansea Story"	£10,000
15 Jun 2022	LEFJFF Host 2022	£104,000
19 Jan 2022	Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	£100,000

All 67 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
10 Jun 2021	Road Safety TrustGrant to Swansea University	£46,437
5 May 2020	Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	£25,000
13 Mar 2020	LEFJFF Host 2020	£101,510
28 Mar 2019	NestaAX00005	£20,000
5 Dec 2018	Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY	£150,000
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks for carbon dioxide capture	£97,042
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optimising symbiont-mediated RNA interference as a control measure for Western Flower Thrips and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus	£356,937
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Interfaces, Stability and Energy Efficiency: Photochemical Characterisation of Perovskites for Printable Photovoltaics	£100,608
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Human Centred Robotics for Next-generation Flexible Manufacturing	£544,518
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Prosperity Partnership in Rapid Product Development	£2,431,506
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The next level of SAT solving for very hard problems	£839,938
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Proud Pads : Hassle Free Sustainable Sanitary Pads	£4,832
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Leah Bertram	£6,296
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - pallula fashion & accessories	£6,295
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Trade Finance Fraud Detection Project in Dual Use Goods with Machine Learning and Visual Analytics	£137,996
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - FAST	£119,253
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Modular Unitary Drives for High Power Electric and Hybrid Vehicles	£459,387
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Moisture Barrier Coatings for PVOH Soluble Products to Reduce Packaging and Extend Product Life	£29,989
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Novel Graphite Flake production for Li-Ion Battery Manufacture from Steelmaking By-Product	£33,585
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - HALLO - High and Low Light Opv	£87,512
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - EEN ENIW SGA3	£87,691
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySURFTEC: SUrvivability and Reliability of Floating Tidal Energy Converters	£508,199
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyUK Climate During The Common Era	£508,254
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Transfer Learning for Robust, Resilient and Transferable Cyber Manufacturing Systems	£477,185
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The future of human rights investigations: Using open source intelligence to transform the documentation and discovery of human rights violations	£198,186
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The Active Building Centre	£35,947,427
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - DTP 2018-19 Swansea University	£1,286,028
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - GHOST (Geophysical Habitats of Subglacial Thwaites)	£273,520
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Reframing Global Environmental Change: fostering interdisciplinary approaches to socioecological transformation through insights from Wales.	£98,571
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University Innov Placements	£30,183
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - STFC Swansea 2018 DTP	£145,423
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Antiparticle beamline for experiments on matter antimatter symmetry	£486,613
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University NPIF 2018	£200,000
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optical Transfer of Heat with Electrical and Light Output (OTHELLO)	£145,546
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Administrative Data Research Centres 2018	£4,879,390
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Industrial CASE Account - Swansea University 2018	£509,094
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Preventing Hospital Re-admissions for People with Severe Mental Illness in East Africa (PRISM)	£126,601
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - VirtualSpace	£11,576
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - PV-Interfaces: Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions via Photovoltaic Surfaces	£738,112
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University Capital Equipment for ECRs	£100,000
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Host-pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)	£378,257
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - ACceleration of Circular Economy for Printable Photovoltaics Through Eco-Design (ACCEPTED)	£547,407
25 Jan 2018	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Twenty-First Century reverberations; restoring unique industrial heritage in the Swansea Valley"	£49,100
28 Nov 2017	The National Lottery Community FundSwansea Edible Community Garden	£9,850
26 Oct 2017	Road Safety TrustGrant to Swansea University	£77,885
1 Jun 2017	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySurface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells	£172,542
1 Jun 2017	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySurface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells	£137,381
24 May 2017	The National Lottery Community FundLittle Voices Being Heard	£246,654
28 Jul 2016	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Burton @ 14: Change for Burton, Port Talbot and Us"	£34,300
29 Mar 2016	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Legacy of Longfields Association: Celebrating the history and impact of a pioneering disability charity"	£58,200
5 Dec 2014	The National Lottery Community FundLittle Voices, Shouting Out	£229,135
28 Mar 2013	NestaAC00353	£43,517
13 Dec 2011	The National Lottery Community FundInteractive Health: Student Sex Workers	£509,082
13 Jul 2011	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Community, Heritage and Swansea City Football Club: A Centenary History, 1912-2012"	£47,500
1 Nov 2007	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Robert Owen: Legacies That Last"	£49,900
15 Oct 2004	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Lest We Forget': unfurling the South Wales Coalfield Banner Collection"	£48,900
26 Mar 1996	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"University of Wales Egypt Centre, Swansea"	£414,000

In council meetings

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

8 October 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Swansea Public Services Board
Updates on the 5 Steps in our Public Services Board Action Plan 2026/27.
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22 September 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Statutory Licensing Sub Committee
Licensing Act 2003 - Section 17 - Application for a Premises Licence - Ospreys Rugby, St Helen's, Bryn Road, Swansea, SA2 0AR
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8 September 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee - Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee
University Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD) Innovation Matrix Economic / Benefits Appraisal
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3 September 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Announcements of the Presiding Member.
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28 July 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee
Local Innovation Partnerships Fund
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28 July 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee
University Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD) Innovation Matrix Project Closure Report
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28 July 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee
University Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD) Innovation Matrix Economic / Benefits Appraisal
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27 July 2026, Monmouthshire
Named in an agenda item or minute of Public Services Scrutiny Committee
Best Start in Life - Following regional scrutiny, to provide a shared understanding of priorities, consistent challenge and visibility of local impacts within each local authority area
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23 July 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Infrastructure Service Transformation Committee
Renewables/District Heat Network.
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20 July 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Care & Tackling Poverty Service Transformation Committee
Update on Adult Services Early Help Transformation.
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16 July 2026, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Oral Questions
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15 July 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee - Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee
Overview of the South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee and Swansea Bay City Deal (Verbal)
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2 July 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Announcements of the Presiding Member.
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11 June 2026, Pembrokeshire
Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Most Significant Change
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25 March 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Proposal for Swansea to Apply to Become a Partner City in the Global Biophilic Cities Network.
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19 March 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet
Swansea Bay Sports Park - Strategy for the Future Governance and Operating Model. (Published 13/03/2026).
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12 February 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Swansea Public Services Board
Towards an Assessment of Local Well-being 2027.
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27 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee
UK Research and Innovation Local Innovation Partnerships Fund
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27 January 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Scrutiny Performance Panel - Climate Change and Nature
Local Flood Risk Management - Annual Update
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22 January 2026, Swansea
Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet
Proposal for Swansea to Apply to Become a Partner City in the Global Biophilic Cities Network.
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13 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of Swansea Bay City Region Joint Scrutiny Committee
Pentre Awel progress update
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13 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of Swansea Bay City Region Joint Scrutiny Committee
SBCD Portfolio Monitoring Q2 2025/26
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13 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of Swansea Bay City Region Joint Scrutiny Committee
SBCD Financial Monitoring Q2 2025/26
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13 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee - Overview and Scrutiny Sub-Committee
UK Research and Innovation Local Innovation Partnerships Fund
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5 January 2026, Neath Port Talbot
Named in an agenda item or minute of South West Wales Corporate Joint Committee - Economic Well Being and Regional Economic Development Sub-Committee
UK Research and Innovation Local Innovation Partnerships Fund
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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30 September 2026
Named by Gwyn Williams in the Senedd
…icy itself, generally, which is not a blanket policy in any way, it's a good thing. And I will use data to illustrate this. As a lecturer in Swansea University, I'm very used to PowerPoint presentations, and I think it is very strange to discuss data, especially graph-based data, where you can do wi…
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17 September 2026
Named by Mabon ap Gwynfor in the Senedd
I would suggest a visit to either Cardiff or Swansea university, or both, because they've got some really good work going on there.
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11 September 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DMSTE
Purpose: Celtic Freeport Colleges Skills Partnership Launch Event - Swansea University.
Celtic Freeport Colleges Skills Partnership Launch Event - Swansea University
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19 August 2026
Named in a written question from Gwyn Williams
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy.
…nna could use light rail on existing lines and on-street running would link Swansea High Street station, the city centre and waterfront, and Swansea university campus with Neath, Tonna and Aberdulais. The estimated cost of this would be over £1bn. The Metro ‘heavy rail’ stations have stronger busine…
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13 August 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DMSTE
Purpose: Media Interviews at Swansea University - BBC & ITV.
Media Interviews at Swansea University - BBC & ITV
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13 July 2026
Named in a written question from Natasha Asghar
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Health and Care.
…sle of Man, and UK unknown) Non-UK Unknown Aberystwyth University 170 30 30 0 Bangor University 895 145 55 5 Cardiff University 955 370 80 0 Swansea University 1,085 115 115 0 The Open University (Welsh national centre) 350 0 0 0 University of South Wales 2,125 85 220 50 Wrexham University 710 210 1…
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23 June 2026
Named by Rhun ap Iorwerth in the Senedd
…sectors, too, linked to higher education, for example, that give me cause to be very excited about the future—the work that's being done at Swansea University through life sciences, for example, the leading work that is being done at Swansea University in relation to the advanced semiconductor manu…
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10 June 2026
Named by Mike Hedges in the Senedd
…he girls' grammar school in Llwyn y Bryn. She first qualified as a primary school teacher, then as a nurse, before becoming a nurse tutor at Swansea University where she taught and influenced many of the current senior nurses working in the Swansea Bay health board. She had been an active Labour Par…
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9 June 2026
Named by Mike Hedges in the Senedd
I'm a graduate of Swansea University, and, like all other local Senedd Members, including yourself, am on the university court. I'm asking for an urgent Government statement on the planned redundancies in the computing department of Swansea University. If we are to improve our economy and productivi…
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25 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Sioned Williams, Member of the Senedd
Category: Remunerated Employment, Directorships etc..
Entry in respect of: Spouse Name and nature of the employer: Swansea University Nature of the post: Professor Has the employer tendered for, is it tendering for, or does it have a contract with the Senedd Commission or Welsh Government: In receipt of core and grant funding from the Welsh Government…
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22 May 2026
Named in a registered interest of Mike Hedges, Member of the Senedd
Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.
Information relevant to entry: Member - Swansea University Court
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21 May 2026
Named in a written question from Gwyn Williams
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…ill the Cabinet Minister explore whether the policy of the last administration to transfer the Technocamps digital upskilling programme from Swansea University to the University of York can be reversed? I will be looking closely at the range of Government funded support for digital learning in our c…
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21 May 2026
Named in a written question from Gwyn Williams
Addressed to the Cabinet Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.
…nister taking to support universities following the Higher Education Statistics Agency reporting that three universities in Wales, including Swansea University, are part of the top ten universities in Britain to have the highest deficits as a percentage of income? Government has committed to taking…
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26 March 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: MinFHE
Purpose: Visit Swansea University Singleton Campus.
Visit Swansea University Singleton Campus
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6 March 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec FWL
Purpose: Swansea University Probation Event.
Swansea University Probation Event
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4 March 2026
Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd
Thank you, Sioned, for that question, and I echo your sentiments about the importance of Swansea University to the regional economy, both in terms of the workforce there and the opportunities that it provides. I agree with you completely about the widening participation agenda as well. In fact, I'll…
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4 March 2026
Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd
I would like to declare an interest in this question, Llywydd, as my husband is a professor at Swansea University. Ensuring not just recognition of what's happening in the university, but also Welsh Government support for the university is vital, of course, to my region and to Wales nationally, to t…
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4 March 2026
Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd
…illion to be split equally between FE and HE, to support all our FE and HE institutions. And that, of course, will include Gower college and Swansea University. Turning to Gower college, it is, of course, Colleges Week this week. I've just returned from a lovely visit to the College Merthyr Tydfil,…
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4 March 2026
Named by Mike Hedges in the Senedd
…wards, showed what further education is achieving in Swansea for individuals and our economy. I have concerns regarding the restructuring of Swansea University and the proposed loss of skills due to proposed redundancies. Has the Minister discussed with Swansea college what further support is availa…
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4 March 2026
Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd
Llywydd, I wish to declare a personal interest. I have a close family member who is currently a student at Swansea University. Provision in the Swansea area is extensive and caters to a wide variety of aspirations, learning styles, and support needs. Swansea University is the primary HE provider, pr…
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11 February 2026
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: MinFHE
Purpose: Meeting with Prof Boyle, Swansea University.
Meeting with Prof Boyle, Swansea University
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10 February 2026
Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd
…s been in the press as well, to that particular course, and, of course, there are others that are affected in terms of the issues arising in Swansea University. I understand that the Minister for Further and Higher Education has reached out to the vice-chancellor of the university, to meet and discu…
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10 February 2026
Named by Mike Hedges in the Senedd
I'm asking for a Welsh Government statement on the future of computing in Swansea University. There are currently proposals to make substantial staffing reductions in the computing department. If this goes ahead, it will affect recruitment of both staff and students for many years into the future. I…
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9 February 2026
Named by Lindsay Whittle in the Senedd
…sea loses 15 staff posts. There's something clearly wrong, isn't there? And £1.4 million of Welsh money is now going to York university, not Swansea University.
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9 February 2026
Named by Lindsay Whittle in the Senedd
…would be, and I would like this petition to go forward for the next Senedd as well, if we can do that, please, because it's quite clear that Swansea University has been treated rather shabbily, in my opinion.
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Trustees

16 trustees run the charity.

Carlos Gregorio AshmoreChairAppointed 1 August 2020
Anne Catherine TuttAppointed 6 July 2020
Edward Illtyd DavidAppointed 4 February 2020
Karen JonesAppointed 7 September 2026
Keshav SinghalAppointed 1 December 2020
Laurence Jerome CarpaniniAppointed 1 January 2023
Marcia Ann SinfieldAppointed 1 December 2020
Mark Adrian JonesAppointed 10 August 2026
Matthew Robert HarrisAppointed 12 January 2026
Nan WilliamsAppointed 1 January 2024
Professor Michelle Denise LeeAppointed 1 July 2023
Professor Paul Joseph BoyleAppointed 26 July 2019
Richard Adam JonesAppointed 1 July 2023
Richard David ThomasAppointed 16 May 2024
Robbie Glyn RichardsAppointed 1 July 2026
Thomas Michael NavinAppointed 1 July 2026

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Filing record

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 July 2025	31 May 2026	Received 11 February 2026, 109 days early	Received 11 February 2026
31 July 2024	31 May 2025	Received 28 April 2025, 33 days early	Received 28 April 2025
31 July 2023	31 May 2024	Received 27 March 2024, 65 days early	Received 27 March 2024
31 July 2022	31 May 2023	Received 8 February 2023, 112 days early	Received 8 February 2023
31 July 2021	31 May 2022	Received 25 April 2022, 36 days early	Received 25 April 2022

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.

About this charity

Charity number: 1138342
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 11 October 2010
Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER 21 JANUARY 1920
Website: www.swansea.ac.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Swansea

Sources

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.
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.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 July 2025

£325,645,000

£373,030,000

3,448

31 July 2024

£381,610,000

£298,779,000

3,661

31 July 2023

£412,628,000

£348,691,000

3,714

31 July 2022

£340,086,000

£447,629,000

3,546

131

31 July 2021

£360,665,000

£332,920,000

3,627

154

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 July 2025

£9,257,434 from 81 grants

£19,660,548 from 126 contracts

31 July 2024

£6,620,269 from 32 grants

£16,033,806 from 115 contracts

31 July 2023

£3,015,661 from 14 grants

£21,090,170 from 124 contracts

31 July 2022

£323,585 from 3 grants

£15,913,527 from 151 contracts

31 July 2021

£7,979,730 from 6 grants

£12,088,495 from 115 contracts

Funder

Type

Jul 2025

Jul 2024

Jul 2023

Medr

Other public body

£29,995,000

Educational contracts with the NHS and HEIW

NHS

£16,328,000

£14,389,000

NHS income in respect of the College of Medicine

NHS

£8,203,000

£7,632,000

£5,055,000

HERC Capital grant

Trust, company or other

£1,163,000

£3,371,000

£2,021,000

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

Other public body

£28,598,000

£28,891,000

UK Research and Innovation

UK Government

£2,134,000

£2,031,000

Funder

Year ending

Amount

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2025

£401,896

Cancer Research Wales

31 March 2026

£328,819

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2024

£507,694

Cancer Research Wales

31 March 2025

£759,798

Cancer Research Wales

31 March 2024

£167,967

Awarded

Grant

Amount

8 Sept 2026

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"#HP ArchaeoMargam II: A Roman Villa for All (short title: ArchaeoMargam)"

£248,648

8 Sept 2025

Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award

£50,000

5 Feb 2025

Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

£240,000

6 Jun 2024

Nuffield FoundationGrant to Swansea University

£177,868

15 Jun 2023

Nuffield FoundationGrant to Swansea University

£295,145

4 Apr 2023

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"South Wales Miners’ Library: Feasibility Study"

£50,000

27 Feb 2023

Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

£10,000

4 Oct 2022

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"A Swansea Story"

£10,000

15 Jun 2022

LEFJFF Host 2022

£104,000

19 Jan 2022

Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

£100,000

Awarded

Grant

Amount

10 Jun 2021

Road Safety TrustGrant to Swansea University

£46,437

5 May 2020

Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

£25,000

13 Mar 2020

LEFJFF Host 2020

£101,510

28 Mar 2019

NestaAX00005

£20,000

5 Dec 2018

Esmée Fairbairn FoundationGrant to SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

£150,000

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks for carbon dioxide capture

£97,042

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optimising symbiont-mediated RNA interference as a control measure for Western Flower Thrips and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus

£356,937

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Interfaces, Stability and Energy Efficiency: Photochemical Characterisation of Perovskites for Printable Photovoltaics

£100,608

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Human Centred Robotics for Next-generation Flexible Manufacturing

£544,518

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Prosperity Partnership in Rapid Product Development

£2,431,506

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The next level of SAT solving for very hard problems

£839,938

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Proud Pads : Hassle Free Sustainable Sanitary Pads

£4,832

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Leah Bertram

£6,296

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - pallula fashion & accessories

£6,295

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Trade Finance Fraud Detection Project in Dual Use Goods with Machine Learning and Visual Analytics

£137,996

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - FAST

£119,253

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Modular Unitary Drives for High Power Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

£459,387

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Moisture Barrier Coatings for PVOH Soluble Products to Reduce Packaging and Extend Product Life

£29,989

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Novel Graphite Flake production for Li-Ion Battery Manufacture from Steelmaking By-Product

£33,585

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - HALLO - High and Low Light Opv

£87,512

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - EEN ENIW SGA3

£87,691

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySURFTEC: SUrvivability and Reliability of Floating Tidal Energy Converters

£508,199

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyUK Climate During The Common Era

£508,254

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Transfer Learning for Robust, Resilient and Transferable Cyber Manufacturing Systems

£477,185

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The future of human rights investigations: Using open source intelligence to transform the documentation and discovery of human rights violations

£198,186

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - The Active Building Centre

£35,947,427

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - DTP 2018-19 Swansea University

£1,286,028

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - GHOST (Geophysical Habitats of Subglacial Thwaites)

£273,520

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Reframing Global Environmental Change: fostering interdisciplinary approaches to socioecological transformation through insights from Wales.

£98,571

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University Innov Placements

£30,183

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - STFC Swansea 2018 DTP

£145,423

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Antiparticle beamline for experiments on matter antimatter symmetry

£486,613

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University NPIF 2018

£200,000

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optical Transfer of Heat with Electrical and Light Output (OTHELLO)

£145,546

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Administrative Data Research Centres 2018

£4,879,390

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Industrial CASE Account - Swansea University 2018

£509,094

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Preventing Hospital Re-admissions for People with Severe Mental Illness in East Africa (PRISM)

£126,601

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - VirtualSpace

£11,576

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - PV-Interfaces: Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions via Photovoltaic Surfaces

£738,112

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Swansea University Capital Equipment for ECRs

£100,000

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Host-pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)

£378,257

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - ACceleration of Circular Economy for Printable Photovoltaics Through Eco-Design (ACCEPTED)

£547,407

25 Jan 2018

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Twenty-First Century reverberations; restoring unique industrial heritage in the Swansea Valley"

£49,100

28 Nov 2017

The National Lottery Community FundSwansea Edible Community Garden

£9,850

26 Oct 2017

Road Safety TrustGrant to Swansea University

£77,885

1 Jun 2017

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySurface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

£172,542

1 Jun 2017

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategySurface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

£137,381

24 May 2017

The National Lottery Community FundLittle Voices Being Heard

£246,654

28 Jul 2016

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Burton @ 14: Change for Burton, Port Talbot and Us"

£34,300

29 Mar 2016

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Legacy of Longfields Association: Celebrating the history and impact of a pioneering disability charity"

£58,200

5 Dec 2014

The National Lottery Community FundLittle Voices, Shouting Out

£229,135

28 Mar 2013

NestaAC00353

£43,517

13 Dec 2011

The National Lottery Community FundInteractive Health: Student Sex Workers

£509,082

13 Jul 2011

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Community, Heritage and Swansea City Football Club: A Centenary History, 1912-2012"

£47,500

1 Nov 2007

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Robert Owen: Legacies That Last"

£49,900

15 Oct 2004

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Lest We Forget': unfurling the South Wales Coalfield Banner Collection"

£48,900

26 Mar 1996

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"University of Wales Egypt Centre, Swansea"

£414,000

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 July 2025

31 May 2026

Received 11 February 2026, 109 days early

Received 11 February 2026

31 July 2024

31 May 2025

Received 28 April 2025, 33 days early

Received 28 April 2025

31 July 2023

31 May 2024

Received 27 March 2024, 65 days early

Received 27 March 2024

31 July 2022

31 May 2023

Received 8 February 2023, 112 days early

Received 8 February 2023

31 July 2021

31 May 2022

Received 25 April 2022, 36 days early

Received 25 April 2022