The Representative Body of the Church in Wales

The Representative Body's key objectives and activities are:1. To manage its investments;2. To manage the ecclesiastical and secular property vested in the Representative Body for the uses and purposes of the Church in Wales;3. To oversee the work of St Michael's College;4. To provide an efficient and professional administrative service across a wide range of administrative functions.

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 December 2025, it had income of £23,001,000 and spent £29,134,000.

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 14%, from £20,264,000 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £23,001,000 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 127% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 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 December 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 35 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £2,562,132.

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.

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

• 13 October 2026, Vale of Glamorgan

  Named in a decision of Welsh Church Act Estate Trust

  Rectory Farm, Llanmihangel.

  Read the meeting record

• 13 December 2023, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet Member for Deputy Leader and Regeneration, Leisure, Culture and Tourism

  DECLARATIONS OF PERSONAL INTEREST

  Read the meeting record

We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

23 trustees run the charity.

• Professor Medwin HughesChairAppointed 18 November 2021
• Christopher ClarkeAppointed 12 May 2023
• Dr Elizabeth Heather PayneAppointed 1 January 2024
• Dr Hywel Parry-SmithAppointed 1 January 2024
• Elizabeth ThomasAppointed 15 December 2025
• Ian Stuart LoyndAppointed 17 September 2024
• Jane HeardAppointed 1 January 2021
• Judith HaywardAppointed 5 November 2018
• Michael LawleyAppointed 27 July 2017
• Nicola Caroline GibbonsAppointed 1 January 2024
• Paul Russell WilliamsAppointed 1 January 2024
• Peter Duncan KennedyAppointed 1 August 2017
• Rev Miriam Joanna BeecroftAppointed 10 September 2021
• Rev NIGEL WILLIAMSAppointed 25 September 2018
• Richard AnningAppointed 21 March 2024
• Sam AllinAppointed 22 March 2022
• The Most Reverend Cherry VannAppointed 30 July 2025
• The Reverend Dr Adrian MorganAppointed 1 January 2024
• The Venerable Anne-Marie Louise RenshawAppointed 26 July 2026
• The Venerable Ian Kendall ReesAppointed 1 January 2024
• Thomas Owen Saunders LloydAppointed 22 October 2012
• Timothy James LlewelynAppointed 1 December 2022
• Venerable PAUL MACKNESSAppointed 1 January 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

1142813

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 July 2011

Governing document

SCHEME DATED 01/06/2011TAKING EFFECT ON 01/08/2011

Website

www.churchinwales.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.
• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth