Welsh Women's Aid

We represent and campaign for our member services across Wales who provide frontline support to survivors of all forms of violence against women & girls-Delivery of the Live Fear Free Helpline, providing first contact advice and signposting to ongoing support such as refuge and advocacy-Training-Campaigning and consultancy on relevant policy-Community engagement and fundraising

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £3,192,752 and spent £3,153,324.

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 5%, from £3,043,654 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £3,192,752 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 99% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

90% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£2,867,412).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £1,234,604 in the year to 31 March 2025, 39% 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: £2,024,098 from 14 grants. Government contracts: £843,314 from 5 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 19 funders who gave £3,007,656 between them. £2,381,458 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 19 grants to this charity since 2006, worth at least £1,443,020.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 61 payments to this charity worth £8,997,672 between 29 January 2021 and 8 May 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

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

• 5 November 2025, Neath Port Talbot

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Declarations of Interest

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• 5 November 2025, Neath Port Talbot

  Stephanie Grimshaw declared an interest that names the charity, at Council

  Neath Port Talbot Council and Third Sector Compact 2025-2028

  Recorded as a other interest.

  Read the meeting record

• 14 October 2025, Neath Port Talbot

  Stephanie Grimshaw declared an interest that names the charity, at Social Services Scrutiny Committee

  Western Bay Drugs Commission: Turning the Tide - Steering a new course towards hope and recovery

  Recorded as a personal interest.

  Read the meeting record

• 4 February 2025, Merthyr Tydfil

  Named in an agenda item or minute of South Wales Police and Crime Panel

  Declarations of Interest

  Read the meeting record

• 18 June 2024, Merthyr Tydfil

  Named in an agenda item or minute of South Wales Police and Crime Panel

  Declarations of Interest

  Read the meeting record

• 23 April 2024, Merthyr Tydfil

  Named in an agenda item or minute of South Wales Police and Crime Panel

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

• 22 October 2026

  Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd

  …ction the Welsh Government is taking to support women and children, from perpetrators who sustain coercive control, via the family courts or Welsh Women's Aid, for example? They've said that there's a pro-contact culture and that prioritises access to children above safety and well-being. And so, it…

  Read the record

• 1 October 2026

  Named by Carmelo Colasanto in the Senedd

  Can I interject there just slightly and say that we did get a response from Welsh Women's Aid? It's in page 141 of the pack. But they have responded. Please continue.

  Read the record

• 22 July 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DFMCMSJE

  Purpose: Intro Welsh Women's Aid.

  Intro Welsh Women's Aid

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• 4 February 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec SJTCW

  Purpose: Cymorth i Ferched Cymru / Welsh Women’s Aid.

  Cymorth i Ferched Cymru / Welsh Women’s Aid

  Read the record

• 15 January 2026

  Named by Mark Isherwood in the Senedd

  …t have national representation. I know at the time, at their request, I made representations to the Welsh Government for bodies ranging from Welsh Women's Aid to Hourglass on older people's abuse, which went up massively during the pandemic, and many others besides, who went through those weeks and…

9 trustees run the charity.

• Julie McCarthyChairAppointed 16 May 2023
• Michelle PooleyAppointed 26 June 2023
• Nicola Rae DansonAppointed 9 March 2022
• Patricia Diaz-RhysAppointed 1 December 2025
• Patricia Louise Sadler-McGrathAppointed 10 November 2022
• Professor Fiona Vera GrayAppointed 1 December 2025
• Shawni SinghAppointed 1 December 2025
• Treena DaviesAppointed 1 December 2025
• Victoria FriisAppointed 26 November 2021

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

1140962

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

31 March 2011

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05/01/2011NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 13/09/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 26/09/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/08/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/12/2013 as amended on 27 Nov 2019

Company number

07483469This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.welshwomensaid.org.ukAs 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.
• 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.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• 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.

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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
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