Registered charity 1143178

Size of Wales

What it does

Size of Wales aims to engage the people in Wales in helping to protect an area of tropical forests totaling two million hectares, through direct fundraising with employers, individuals, companies and match funding the fundraising efforts of our partners. Size of Wales also raises awareness, in Wales and the wider UK, of the importance of tropical forests for the global climate.

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

Its charitable purposes

1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING THE WORLD'S CLIMATE SYSTEMS) AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TROPICAL FORESTS.2 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (INCLUDING THE WORLD'S CLIMATE SYSTEMS) AND THE PRUDENT USE OF TROPICAL FORESTS AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES;(B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SUCH COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA; AND (C) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC (IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IN WALES) IN: (A) THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (INCLUDING THE WORLD'S CLIMATE SYSTEMS) AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE TROPICAL FORESTS OF THE WORLD; AND(B) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND SUBJECTS RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH AND STUDY IN SUCH SUBJECTS, PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE).4 TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT. IN THESE ARTICLES, "SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT", "SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT" AND "SUSTAINABLE MEANS" MEAN DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT AND MEANS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: General charitable purposes
Education and training
Preventing or relieving poverty
Environment, conservation and heritage
Economic and community development, and employment
Who it helps: Children and young people
Other charities and voluntary bodies
The general public
How it works: Makes grants to individuals
Makes grants to organisations
Provides other finance
Provides advocacy, advice or information
Other charitable activities

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

Where it works

In Wales

Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,186,692 and spent £1,133,397.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 March 2025	£1,186,692	£1,133,397	10	1
31 March 2024	£1,304,568	£1,194,775	11	Not reported
31 March 2023	£1,103,789	£1,270,178	9	Not reported
31 March 2022	£1,213,923	£1,160,678	9	1
31 March 2021	£1,284,467	£1,214,015	5	9

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 8%, from £1,284,467 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,186,692 in the year to 31 March 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 96% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.
Largest funder: Welsh Government gave £755,500 in the year to 31 March 2025, 64% 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 March 2025: £754,499 from 4 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 March 2025	£754,499 from 4 grants	Not reported
31 March 2024	£775,000 from 2 grants	Not reported
31 March 2023	£651,700 from 2 grants	Not reported
31 March 2022	£800,000 from 3 grants	Not reported
31 March 2021	£910,396 from 1 grant	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.

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

Donations and legacies£209,781
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£973,821
Investments£3,090

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 March 2025, the charity named 10 funders who gave £1,114,717 between them. £755,500 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	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	Mar 2023
Welsh Government	Welsh Government	£755,500	£799,000	£651,700
The Waterloo Foundation	Trust, company or other	£143,000	£143,000	£130,000
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other	£60,000	£131,622	£95,396
Honnold Foundation	Trust, company or other	£57,270	£76,998	£75,258
Admiral	Trust, company or other	£49,647
CIPSF grant	Trust, company or other	£40,000
WWF Cymru	Trust, company or other	£5,300
Stanley Smith Trust	Trust, company or other	£4,000
Co-op Foundation	Trust, company or other		£24,292	£72,698
Joffe Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other		£25,000
Keep Wales Tidy	Trust, company or other			£22,000
Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation	Trust, company or other			£10,000
Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other		£5,000
US Embassy	Trust, company or other		£1,943
WCIA Changemakers	Trust, company or other			£1,000

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.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 2019, worth at least £625,984.

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

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust£478,994, 3 grants
Coop Foundation£96,990, 1 grant
Joffe Charitable Trust£50,000, 1 grant

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
29 Sept 2023	Joffe Charitable TrustSize of Wales	£50,000
8 Jul 2023	Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales	£180,000
13 Jun 2022	Coop FoundationSize of Wales CIF project	£96,990
27 Nov 2021	Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales	£158,994
12 Jul 2019	Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales	£140,000

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data

Public bodies' published spending shows 43 payments to this charity worth £5,128,618 between 7 January 2021 and 11 May 2026.

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data
Public body	Paid	Payments	Financial years
Welsh Governmentits spending data	£5,128,481	41	2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27
Monmouthshire County Councilits spending data	£137	2	2024/25

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.

In council meetings

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

18 April 2024, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Environmental Scrutiny Committee
Race to Zero
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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22 October 2026
Named in a written question from John Clark
Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality.
…inancial year? The Welsh Government’s Wales and Africa programme has provided funding to the following organisations in this financial year: • Size of Wales • Hub Cymru Africa • Wales Council for Voluntary Action • Disasters Emergency Committee Cymru • Safe For Children
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6 October 2026
Named by Sera Evans in the Senedd
…s the flexibility we need to sufficiently deal with the scale of the challenges we face? The fiscal framework established limits on both the size of the Wales reserve, £385 million, and annual draw-downs with limits of £137.5 million for revenue and £55 million for capital. This is, of course, in co…
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12 June 2026
Named in a written question from Shav Taj
Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality.
…ister strengthening Wales’s global social justice leadership across education, procurement, food policy, and public health by building on the Size of Wales's campaigns, the Wales and Africa programme, and Rhodri Morgan’s Fair Trade legacy? This Welsh Government will be international in our outlook a…
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2 February 2026
Named by Y Farwnes/Baroness Carr in the Senedd
…ment of the magistracy is another good example, and the working in partnership for the pilots that I've been talking about. Somehow, it is the size of Wales, the fact that it isn't as big and spread out as England, that enables it to deliver on the ground. Talking to representatives from HMCTS Wales…
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27 January 2026
Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd
…£225,000 I am told would cost £140 million, but where would this come from if we're still to expect decent public services? Cutting the Mbale Size of Wales project, which does great, great things—what's that, £4 million? Well, that won't go very far, especially if you want to spend money reversing…
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15 December 2025
Named by Dr Robert Jones in the Senedd
…ould like to see there be a slightly more engaged discussion in Wales about this, about what can be done in Wales. I think that, given the the size of Wales and the opportunities here of, effectively, people working together on this stuff, I think there's some scope to do some interesting and import…
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11 November 2025
Named by Janet Finch-Saunders in the Senedd
…to Wales? At a time when COP30 is in the Amazon rainforest, we should acknowledge in this Senedd that an area equivalent to 40 per cent of the size of Wales is used overseas to grow commodities that are imported into Wales. So, bearing in mind that it is COP that is taking place, we should bear in m…
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22 September 2025
Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd
…I went to a presentation with Gwauncelyn Primary School, from, I think, Llanilltud Faerdref—Joel, near your patch—and it had been arranged by Size of Wales, to do with renewable work, and to make sure that the food they ate at school was sustainable. Now, it's clear from the Welsh Government respon…
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22 September 2025
Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd
Okay, thank you. So, if we move on to 4.5, P-06-1520, 'Stop all foreign aid payments from the Welsh Government including to "Size of Wales"'. 'The Welsh Government has this year given £775,000 (up from £670,000 last year) to a Charity called Size of Wales, chaired by ex-First Minister Carwyn Jones.…
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25 June 2025
Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd
…has an annual capital borrowing limit of £450 million, three times that of Wales's £150 million, despite being nearly two and a half times the size of Wales. In terms of total borrowing limit, both Scotland and Northern Ireland can borrow a total of £3 billion, where Wales's borrowing limit is £1 bi…
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14 May 2025
Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd
…number of members within WOAG who are organisations that work closely on some of those deliverables because they're funded by Welsh Government—Size of Wales, Hub Cymru Africa, those Welsh organisations, have more of a conversation, because of funded projects. Other organisations, international non-g…
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14 May 2025
Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd
…other members of WOAG who do have relationships with other ministers—the Deputy First Minister, for example, who's working really closely with Size of Wales and has met some of their colleagues that they're working with in the Wampís nation.
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14 May 2025
Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd
…already the project in Mbale, the work on gender equality. There's been work that Hub Cymru Africa have done on safeguarding. The project that Size of Wales have been doing for ethical citizenship, work on fair trade, wider work that's been happening within Dolen Cymru, for example, and how they've…
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14 May 2025
Named by Sarah Rees in the Senedd
…be afraid or pander to populist agendas because there's so much fantastic work. Just this morning I was texting one of the women who came with Size of Wales that was celebrating the Mbale project. They came to celebrate the fact that 25,000 trees have been planted. The positive impact that that has…
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10 March 2025
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec SJTCW
Purpose: Size of Wales; Litchard Primary School.
Size of Wales; Litchard Primary School
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19 February 2025
Named by Mike Hedges in the Senedd
We often compare places to the size of Wales. Well, Gaza is 141 square miles, less than the distance from Carmarthen to Swansea in length, and the width of Swansea city centre to Mumbles. This is a small area. Gaza is considered by many biblical experts to be the route Jesus, Mary and Joseph took to…
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18 November 2024
Named in a written question from Andrew RT Davies
Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs.
Will the Cabinet Secretary provide a full breakdown of any and all Welsh Government funding provided to the charity Size of Wales in each of the last ten years, including the reasoning behind the funding amounts? Financial Year Total Reason for funding 2015/16 £111,000 £75,000 SoW project funding fo…
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18 October 2024
Named in a written question from Andrew RT Davies
Addressed to the First Minister.
…ther to WQ94187, will the First Minister provide a full breakdown of all funding provided over the last 15 years by the partner organisations, Size of Wales, the Mount Elgon Tree Growing Enterprise, and the four other local NGOs, for the tree planting initiative? Over the last 15 years, the Welsh Go…
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16 October 2024
Named by Katie Palmer in the Senedd
…l is a living wage city, so, obviously, the catering teams within the schools, for example, will be paid the Wales living wage; also work that Size of Wales has been doing with Caerphilly County Borough Council, looking at menu frameworks in terms of integrating global responsibility and deforestati…
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14 August 2024
Named in a written question from Samuel Kurtz
Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Education.
…and Technology. Annually, we spend £665,000 to support two key environmental educational programmes for schools across Wales: Eco Schools and Size of Wales. Reaching up to 90% of schools across Wales, over 300,000 children and young people have been engaged via these programmes, empowering them to…
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3 July 2024
Named by Sam Rowlands in the Senedd
…n and in desperate need of surgery: it’s a traumatic experience and it’s unacceptable. For that to be more than 21,000 people in a country the size of Wales is frankly shameful. I don’t like to make comparisons across borders, but I think we need to be careful to not allow ourselves to get used to t…
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26 June 2024
Named by Luke Fletcher in the Senedd
Yes, and the size of Wales actually gives us a good advantage in being able to link up a lot of these thing very easily.
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1 May 2024
Named by Jeremy Miles in the Senedd
…autious in interpreting short-term changes in the data, especially when we look at more detailed breakdowns, which would apply to a nation the size of Wales. That becomes even less reliable than the UK-wide picture, for reasons which we will understand. So, their recommendation is that we continue t…
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22 April 2024
Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd
Nevertheless, you've been giving this some thought, because in your written evidence you highlight the role of the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority, which has merely 15 members and covers an area similar to the size of Wales.
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29 February 2024
Named by Rebecca Evans in the Senedd
…e allocations so that it gives us time to be able to respond to that. And then there are all of the things that we've talked about about the size of the Wales reserve. Had we not planned to draw down everything from the Wales reserve within this financial year, then we would have found ourselves pot…
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Trustees

13 trustees run the charity.

Abdikarim Abdi AdanAppointed 2 October 2026
Anne Rebecca SharpAppointed 4 September 2026
Clive ThomasAppointed 28 November 2018
Dr Alastair Michael SmithAppointed 4 September 2026
Elizabeth Wanjiku Mbugua-NgothoAppointed 6 October 2026
Ellen Frances GriffithsAppointed 12 September 2026
Felicity Ann JonesAppointed 12 September 2026
Lisa Julie HandAppointed 11 April 2024
Professor Jonathan Brewster HuntAppointed 11 April 2024
Richard Huw DenmanAppointed 3 June 2020
Shea Darren Buckland-JonesAppointed 11 April 2024
Stuart ClarkeAppointed 13 May 2014
Timothy BirchAppointed 8 September 2025

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 March 2025	31 January 2026	Received 12 January 2026, 19 days early	Received 12 January 2026
31 March 2024	31 January 2025	Received 23 January 2025, 8 days early	Received 23 January 2025
31 March 2023	31 January 2024	Received 22 January 2024, 9 days early	Received 22 January 2024
31 March 2022	31 January 2023	Received 23 January 2023, 8 days early	Received 23 January 2023
31 March 2021	31 January 2022	Received 10 January 2022, 21 days early	Received 10 January 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: 1143178
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 29 July 2011
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 MAY 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 NOV 2018
Company number: 07642041This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House
Website: www.sizeofwales.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Cardiff

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.
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.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 March 2025

£1,186,692

£1,133,397

31 March 2024

£1,304,568

£1,194,775

Not reported

31 March 2023

£1,103,789

£1,270,178

Not reported

31 March 2022

£1,213,923

£1,160,678

31 March 2021

£1,284,467

£1,214,015

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 March 2025

£754,499 from 4 grants

Not reported

31 March 2024

£775,000 from 2 grants

Not reported

31 March 2023

£651,700 from 2 grants

Not reported

31 March 2022

£800,000 from 3 grants

Not reported

31 March 2021

£910,396 from 1 grant

Not reported

Funder

Type

Mar 2025

Mar 2024

Mar 2023

Welsh Government

£755,500

£799,000

£651,700

The Waterloo Foundation

Trust, company or other

£143,000

£130,000

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£60,000

£131,622

£95,396

Honnold Foundation

Trust, company or other

£57,270

£76,998

£75,258

Admiral

Trust, company or other

£49,647

CIPSF grant

Trust, company or other

£40,000

WWF Cymru

Trust, company or other

£5,300

Stanley Smith Trust

Trust, company or other

£4,000

Co-op Foundation

Trust, company or other

£24,292

£72,698

Joffe Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£25,000

Keep Wales Tidy

Trust, company or other

£22,000

Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation

Trust, company or other

£10,000

Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£5,000

US Embassy

Trust, company or other

£1,943

WCIA Changemakers

Trust, company or other

£1,000

Awarded

Grant

Amount

29 Sept 2023

Joffe Charitable TrustSize of Wales

£50,000

8 Jul 2023

Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales

£180,000

13 Jun 2022

Coop FoundationSize of Wales CIF project

£96,990

27 Nov 2021

Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales

£158,994

12 Jul 2019

Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustGrant to Size of Wales

£140,000

Public body

Paid

Payments

Financial years

Welsh Governmentits spending data

£5,128,481

2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27

Monmouthshire County Councilits spending data

£137

2024/25

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 March 2025

31 January 2026

Received 12 January 2026, 19 days early

Received 12 January 2026

31 March 2024

31 January 2025

Received 23 January 2025, 8 days early

Received 23 January 2025

31 March 2023

31 January 2024

Received 22 January 2024, 9 days early

Received 22 January 2024

31 March 2022

31 January 2023

Received 23 January 2023, 8 days early

Received 23 January 2023

31 March 2021

31 January 2022

Received 10 January 2022, 21 days early

Received 10 January 2022