Moondance Foundation

The Moondance Foundation allocates funds to organisations for general charitable purposes. We focus donations in the following key areas, with a bias toward Wales, care for illness/crippling diseases, children, education, elderly, environmental and poverty.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Elsewhere

• United States

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 November 2025, it had income of £66,362,229 and spent £30,875,829.

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 14%, from £77,329,124 in the year to 30 November 2021 to £66,362,229 in the year to 30 November 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 47% of its income in the year to 30 November 2025. It spent less than its income in each 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 30 November 2025: Not reported. 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.

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.

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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

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

• 14 October 2024

  Named by Rhian Davies in the Senedd

  We also get funding from things like the lottery. We recently had a grant from the Moondance Foundation. We have other sponsors. And, over 50 years as an organisation, we've built up reserves.

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• 26 February 2024

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  In the CWLWM paper, it does talk about the contribution of funding from the Moondance Foundation, which has enabled social care workers to fund places for children with disabilities.

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• 26 February 2024

  Named by Jane O’Toole in the Senedd

  …t as an organisation, so we offered it across Wales. It was a limited pot of funding, but it was from May until December, and, luckily, the Moondance Foundation have funded us again for the next financial year. So, that will be available. It's only a small pot, but it has given children who wouldn't…

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• 26 February 2024

  Named by Jane O’Toole in the Senedd

  Yes, the funding that we had as a donation from the Moondance Foundation was more about an assisted place, rather than an extra hand. So, we worked with schools, childcare settings and worked in the community for children who maybe wouldn't be able to access out-of-school or play opportunities, eith…

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• 30 June 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for HSS

  Purpose: Cinio gyda Grŵp Cynghori Clinigol Canser Annibynnol / Sefydliad Moondance / Dinner with Independent Cancer Clinical Advisory Group / Moondance Foundation.

  Cinio gyda Grŵp Cynghori Clinigol Canser Annibynnol / Sefydliad Moondance / Dinner with Independent Cancer Clinical Advisory Group / Moondance Foundation

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• 12 June 2023

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  You sent us some fliers of good practice, which are things that you are doing. Are all of these things funded by the Moondance Foundation? If not, where else is the funding coming from?

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• 12 June 2023

  Named by Anne-Marie Lawrence in the Senedd

  …funding is currently coming to an end. We have been piloting the EDGE project and different formats of it through the flexibility that the Moondance Foundation gave us. Obviously, we have done some great work, and as you will have heard from the young people presenting at the Senedd last week, we h…

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• 12 June 2023

  Named by Anne-Marie Lawrence in the Senedd

  Currently, our funding from the Moondance Foundation—our current period of funding—is just coming towards its end. They have very kindly funded Plan for the past four years in Wales. We are now moving towards a more mixed model of funding. So, yes, we are exploring different ways in which we can fun…

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• 12 June 2023

  Named by Anne-Marie Lawrence in the Senedd

  The Girls' Rights Collective Wales was an initiative started by Plan UK with funding from the Moondance Foundation. I can't list all of the organisations because we've got over 160 organisations who are part of that. It's free to join, it's open to anybody who is interested, and we provide at least…

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• 31 January 2023

  Named by Eluned Morgan in the Senedd

  …wn Bowden's constituency in relation to trying to encourage men in particular to take up the opportunity of bowel cancer screening, and the Moondance Foundation have been pushing this and just trying to make sure that, actually, we engage people, get people to take up the opportunities when they're…

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• 23 August 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for HSS

  Purpose: Moondance Foundation.

  Moondance Foundation

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Diane Briere de l'Isle-Engelhardt OBEChair
• Adrian EngelhardtAppointed 12 June 2012
• Damien EngelhardtAppointed 12 June 2012
• Henry Allan Engelhardt CBE
• Louisa Scadden
• Shanna Briere de l'Isle EngelhardtAppointed 5 May 2016
• Tara Gabriella Briere de l'Isle EngelhardtAppointed 1 February 2018

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

1139224

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 November 2010

Governing document

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 NOVEMBER 2010.

Company number

07442773This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• 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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth