Registered charity 1145141

Prifysgol Aberystwyth

What it does

UNIVERSITYEDUCATIONRESEARCH

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

Its charitable purposes

THE OBJECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE:1. TO ADVANCE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH AND BY THE EXAMPLE AND INFLUENCE OF ITS CORPORATE LIFE;2. TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION AND COURSES OF STUDY FOR THOSE SEEKING TO QUALIFY FOR DEGREES AND OTHER AWARDS OF THE UNIVERSITY, OR OF OTHER INSTITUTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PEOPLE;3. TO PROMOTE AND MAKE PROVISION FOR RESEARCH AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT, DISSEMINATION, PRESERVATION AND APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE BY SUCH METHODS AS THE UNIVERSITY MAY DETERMINE;4. TO DEVELOP THE POTENTIAL OF THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND PREPARE THEM FOR EMPLOYMENT;5. TO GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION, ITSELF OR JOINTLY WITH OTHERS, TO THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF WALES, HAVING REGARD TO THE WELSH LANGUAGE AND THE CULTURE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL TRADITIONS OF WALES.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: Education and training
Who it helps: Children and young people
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

Ceredigion

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 £127,424,000 and spent £132,582,000.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 July 2025	£127,424,000	£132,582,000	1,319	Not reported
31 July 2024	£125,906,000	£99,925,000	1,414	Not reported
31 July 2023	£131,051,000	£130,891,000	1,437	Not reported
31 July 2022	£122,443,000	£150,736,000	1,426	Not reported
31 July 2021	£118,200,000	£120,864,000	1,394	Not reported

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: Up 8%, from £118,200,000 in the year to 31 July 2021 to £127,424,000 in the year to 31 July 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 104% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.
Money from government: 25% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£32,040,159).
Largest funder: Medr gave £11,710,000 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: £32,040,000 from 596 grants. Government contracts: £159 from 10 contracts.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 July 2025	£32,040,000 from 596 grants	£159 from 10 contracts
31 July 2024	£33,839,000 from 532 grants	£374,000 from 15 contracts
31 July 2023	£38,712,000 from 568 grants	£419,000 from 10 contracts
31 July 2022	£34,513,000 from 456 grants	£591,000 from 16 contracts
31 July 2021	£40,967,000 from 529 grants	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 July 2025

Donations and legacies£563,000
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£121,332,000
Trading and fundraising£2,614,000
Investments£730,000
Other£2,185,000

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 2 funders who gave £13,915,000 between them. £13,915,000 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	£11,710,000
Welsh Government	Welsh Government	£2,205,000	£3,006,000	£2,562,000
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales	Other public body		£13,073,000	£14,830,000

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	£531,693
Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol	31 March 2024	£483,122

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 38 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £26,223,324.

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

The National Lottery Heritage Fund£17,501,191, 6 grants
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£5,381,968, 20 grants
The National Lottery Community Fund£2,604,006, 7 grants
Garfield Weston Foundation£550,000, 2 grants
Comic Relief£186,159, 3 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
19 Mar 2025	Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award	£50,000
27 Jul 2023	The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link	£499,885
6 Dec 2022	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Aberetwm: Re-imagining Welsh history and legend for a sustainable and peaceful world"	£72,917
20 May 2021	The National Lottery Community FundYoung Voices in Old College	£269,674
23 Jul 2020	The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link	£498,392
23 Jun 2020	Comic ReliefDewis Choice Aberystwyth University Recovery Fundig	£39,544
14 May 2020	The National Lottery Community FundCovid-19 Dewis Choice	£99,998
7 Feb 2020	Garfield Weston FoundationMajor Grants award	£500,000
30 Jan 2020	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"People's Voices in a People's War: Aberystwyth 1939-45:"	£34,500
21 Jan 2020	Comic ReliefDeveloping Legal Protection Guidance & Social Embeddedness when Domestic Abuse and Dementia co-exist	£76,678

All 38 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
25 Jan 2019	The National Lottery Community FundElder Abuse, Justice and the Voice of Older People	£341,437
9 Jan 2019	Comic ReliefDewis Choice: Dementia, Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) - a whole family approach	£69,937
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyEverDrill: Accessing the interior and bed of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier to forecast future mass loss	£122,746
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - NRC-UKRI Pilot Programme. Prototyping Root System Architecture in Avena: Technologies for Environmental Sustainability and Food Security	£55,323
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optimising the diversity and resilience of grasses for use in urban environments.	£25,305
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Future forages: Implications of forage response to climate change for ruminant production	£474,783
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Svalbard Futures: Value and Adaptations in the Anthropocene	£94,978
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - A China-UK joint phenomics consortium to dissect the basis of crop stress resistance in the face of climate change	£30,612
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - STFC Aberyswyth 2018 DTP	£150,664
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Developing a process to manufacture lactic acid from waste-derived sugars	£319,041
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - OPTOMS - Optimising the production of thermoset resins from MSW-derived sugars	£105,920
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - A new biotech process for xylitol production from ARCITEKBio Ltd.	£32,055
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - (Un)Stitching the Subjects of Colombia's Reconciliation Process	£231,020
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Newton Bhabha Industrial Waste BIOREVIEW	£1,001,109
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Oat domestication - understanding the origin of a European cereal	£548,307
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - How will glacial meltwater microbes come in from the cold in this "Peak Melt" century?	£613,122
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - RCUK-CIAT Newton Fund - Towards climate-smart forage-based diets for Colombian livestock	£100,772
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Structure, connectivity and resilience of an exploited ecosystem: towards sustainable ecosystem-based fisheries management	£818,201
1 Apr 2018	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - BepiColumbo SIXS	£40,895
27 Oct 2017	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Aberystwyth at War: Experience, Impact, Legacy 1914-1919"	£39,100
22 May 2017	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyF-actin associated proteins implicate new mechanisms involved in SI-PCD	£241,498
25 Apr 2017	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Bywyd Newydd i ’r Hen Goleg / New Life for Old College"	£17,334,874
1 Apr 2017	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyFLOODMAL	£295,553
28 Oct 2016	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"'A 150m-year mystery solved?' Jurassic Heritage Exhibition at Old College with National Museum Wales"	£9,800
1 Sept 2016	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyA HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR VISIBLE CORONAL EMISSION LINES	£80,063
28 Aug 2016	The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link (VLL)	£4,997
26 Jun 2015	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Veterans Oral History Project"	£10,000
7 Jan 2015	The National Lottery Community FundElder Abuse and Justice	£889,623

In council meetings

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

18 June 2026, Powys
Named in a decision of Bwrdd Tyfu Canolbarth Cymru / Growing Mid Wales Board
Decision Report - Green Futures Innovation Park OBC
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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

26 November 2025
Named by Huw Irranca-Davies in the Senedd
…i'r sector, gan helpu i sefydlu mentrau newydd ac i arallgyfeirio incwm ffermydd. Rwyf wedi gweld hyn fy hun. Gan fanteisio ar arbenigedd Prifysgol Aberystwyth, rydym yn gosod y sylfeini ar gyfer garddwriaeth sy'n gwrthsefyll newidiadau hinsawdd drwy amaethyddiaeth mewn amgylchedd a reolir a ffermi…
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12 November 2025
Named by Cefin Campbell in the Senedd
…n, Weinidog. Wel, mae Cymru'n dal i fod heb ysgol filfeddygol achrededig sy'n gallu dyfarnu ei graddau ei hun. Er bod y bartneriaeth rhwng Prifysgol Aberystwyth a Choleg Brenhinol y Milfeddygon, fel rŷch chi wedi nodi, yn cynnig datrysiad tymor byr ac i'w groesawu, mae'n dod yn fwyfwy amlwg nad yw'r…
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8 October 2025
Named by Rhodri Llwyd Morgan in the Senedd
…ardal Aberystwyth, un ysgol uwchradd o ardal Abertawe, un ysgol uwchradd o ardal Bangor, myfyrwyr o Lydaw a dwy garfan wahanol o fyfyrwyr Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn ymweld â'r safle. Ac mae yna glwb Lego gyda ni hefyd, gyda llaw.
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10 July 2025
Named by Dr Elin Royles in the Senedd
I'm Elin Royles. I work at the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society, and the department of international politics at Aberystwyth University. Elin Royles. Dwi'n gweithio yng Nghanolfan Gwleidyddiaeth a Chymdeithas Cymru, Prifysgol Aberystwyth, a'r adran gwleidyddiaeth ryngwladol yna.
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8 January 2025
Named by Siân Gwenllian in the Senedd
…. Efo ysgol feddygol eisoes ym Mangor, mae’r seiliau yn eu lle, a’r amser yn iawn i sefydlu ysgol ddeintyddol ym Mangor gan gydweithio efo Prifysgol Aberystwyth hefyd os mae dyna’r trywydd sydd yn cael ei ffafrio. Mi fyddai ysgol ddeintyddol ym Mangor yn un rhan arall o’r jig-so i sefydlu Bangor fel…
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14 November 2024
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: MinFHE
Purpose: Prifysgol Aberystwyth /Aberystwyth University.
Prifysgol Aberystwyth /Aberystwyth University
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6 November 2024
Named by Cefin Campbell in the Senedd
…ateb a gefais hyd yma yn paentio darlun gwahanol i'r un a baentiwyd gan y Gweinidog bythefnos yn ôl: y Drindod Dewi Sant, dim gohebiaeth; Prifysgol Aberystwyth, dim gohebiaeth; Abertawe, dim gohebiaeth; Caerdydd, dim gohebiaeth. Unwaith eto, mae'n ymddangos bod Gweinidogion Llywodraeth Cymru yn dwe…
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16 July 2024
Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd
…hyn yn rhywbeth y mae'n rhaid ei ystyried o ran cyllid, data a deallusrwydd, ar gyfer llywio a chefnogi unrhyw benderfyniad. Yn amlwg iawn Prifysgol Aberystwyth a Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Hywel Dda yw hi ar gyfer Aberystwyth, ond mae Bangor wedi mynegi uchelgais hefyd i ychwanegu ysgol ddeintyddol at…
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10 July 2024
Named by Lynne Neagle in the Senedd
…will require a step change in our approach to the Welsh-medium workforce. Diolch yn fawr, Mabon. Fe fyddwch yn ymwybodol fod penderfyniad Prifysgol Aberystwyth i dynnu'n ôl o addysg gychwynnol i athrawon wedi deillio o'r broses annibynnol a wneir ar ein rhan gan Gyngor y Gweithlu Addysg. Nid yw hyn…
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10 July 2024
Named by Mabon ap Gwynfor in the Senedd
…llfa efo niferoedd athrawon yn argyfyngus, ac yn arbennig, felly, efo athrawon cyfrwng Cymraeg, sydd hyd yn oed yn waeth. Mae'r ffaith bod Prifysgol Aberystwyth wedi penderfynu peidio â pharhau â'r cwrs hyfforddi athrawon am wneud pethau'n waeth fyth, yn enwedig i ysgolion cyfrwng Cymraeg ardal Dwyf…
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10 July 2024
Named by Cefin Campbell in the Senedd
…sy'n dangos gostyngiad sylweddol unwaith eto. Nawr, dyma rai o'r ffigurau, i daflu goleuni ar y sefyllfa real iawn y maent yn ei hwynebu: Prifysgol Aberystwyth, gostyngiad o £1.1 miliwn; Prifysgol Abertawe, £2.4 miliwn; Caerdydd, £3.7 miliwn; Bangor, £0.6 miliwn; y Drindod Dewi Sant, £0.8 miliwn. F…
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3 July 2024
Named by Siân Gwenllian in the Senedd
…i edrych ar yr achos dros ysgol ddeintyddol ym Mangor a dwi'n edrych ymlaen at rannu hynny efo'r Senedd maes o law. Dwi'n deall hefyd bod Prifysgol Aberystwyth efo diddordeb mewn gweithio efo eraill i gyflwyno hyfforddiant deintyddiaeth mewn ardaloedd gwledig. Yr hyn rydym ni'n ei ofyn i'r Senedd e…
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3 July 2024
Named by Eluned Morgan in the Senedd
…a dyw'r pwysau ariannol ddim yn caniatáu hynny ar hyn o bryd. Serch hynny, yr wythnos ddiwethaf, fe ges i sgwrs gydag is-ganghellor newydd Prifysgol Aberystwyth ac fe ddywedodd e ei fod e'n gweithio ar gynnig ar y cyd gyda Phrifysgol Bangor. Dwi wedi eu hannog nhw i ddatblygu'r cynigion yma. Dwi'n y…
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7 May 2024
Named by Huw Irranca-Davies in the Senedd
…ffermio cynaliadwy gyda phartneriaid ehangach allan yna hefyd, gan gynnwys y sefydliadau amgylcheddol ac ati, gan gynnwys y byd academaidd—Prifysgol Aberystwyth, Prifysgol Bangor ac eraill sydd yn rhai o'n meysydd arbenigedd—ond yn ei wneud gyda phobl. Oherwydd mae'n rhaid i ni nid yn unig fod â chy…
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16 April 2024
Named by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd in the Senedd
…yn y ganrif ddiwethaf, Vaughan oedd llywydd undeb y myfyrwyr yn Aberystwyth, ac, ar gyfer y cofnod, ni fydd ffafriaeth amlwg i raddedigion Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn y Siambr hon. [Chwerthin.]
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20 March 2024
Named by Eluned Morgan in the Senedd
…i chynrychioli. Rydych chi'n llygad eich lle am Bowys; roedd yn eithaf da gallu cefnogi'r deintydd newydd yno. Rwy'n falch iawn o weld bod Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn datblygu cynnig i hyfforddi pobl mewn deintyddiaeth yn y rhan honno o'r byd, lle mae yna her go iawn. Ac roedd hynny'n rhywbeth a drafod…
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28 June 2023
Named by Joyce Watson in the Senedd
…u gyllid neu gymorth busnes. Mae bron i 1,300 o bobl wedi cael cymorth i gael gwaith ac mae bron i 7,000 o gymwysterau wedi'u hennill. Mae Prifysgol Aberystwyth wedi elwa o fwy na £45 miliwn i ddatblygu cyfleusterau newydd fel Canolfan a Labordai Milfeddygol 1 ac ArloesiAber. Mae Brexit yn golygu, w…
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13 June 2023
Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd
…rhaeddodd ffoaduriaid Iddewig y DU yn ffoi rhag y casineb hiliol a chrefyddol a arweiniodd yn y pen draw at yr Holocost. Yn ddiweddar, mae Prifysgol Aberystwyth wedi gwneud gwaith ymchwil ardderchog yn cofnodi profiadau plant y Kindertransport yng Nghymru.
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6 June 2023
Named by Vaughan Gething in the Senedd
…rian yr UE, mae dau faes amlwg lle gallwch chi weld tynnu'n ôl a swyddi'n cael eu colli. Mae'r trydydd sector ac addysg uwch—yn amlwg, mae Prifysgol Aberystwyth yn ardal y canolbarth—wedi nodi'n fanwl iawn nifer y prosiectau sy'n dod i ben a'r diswyddiadau uniongyrchol sydd wedi deillio o hynny. Ryd…
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6 June 2023
Named by Vaughan Gething in the Senedd
…edi'u cyflawni. Mae cyllid yr UE wedi helpu i sicrhau bod rhai o'n hasedau rhanbarthol allweddol yn gallu cyrraedd eu llawn botensial. Mae Prifysgol Aberystwyth wedi cael budd o dros £49 miliwn o gyllid yr UE a'r cronfeydd strwythurol presennol i ddatblygu cyfleusterau newydd, arloesol fel VetHub1 a…
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1 December 2022
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for Climate Change
Purpose: Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Aberystwyth University.
Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Aberystwyth University
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30 September 2022
Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for HSS
Purpose: Cwrs nyrsio, Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Nursing course, Aberystwyth University.
Cwrs nyrsio, Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Nursing course, Aberystwyth University
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8 June 2022
Named by Gary Lewis in the Senedd
…nhw—hwnna yw'r gair gorau, rili—ar gyfer beth rydyn ni'n eisiau ei wneud, a chynnig y cyfle iddyn nhw. Rydyn ni'n gwneud darn o waith efo Prifysgol Aberystwyth rŵan ar yr insight i bobl ifanc sydd wir yn deall, yn ysgolion, yn enwedig mewn ardaloedd difreintiedig, fod yna gyfleoedd iddyn nhw weithi…
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25 May 2022
Named by Jane Dodds in the Senedd
…ch yn deall yr effaith yr oedd Sioned Williams yn sôn amdani ar ein prifysgolion yma yng Nghymru ac effaith colli cyllid arnynt. Sicrhaodd Prifysgol Aberystwyth, yn fy rhanbarth i, dros £40 miliwn o arian yr UE er mwyn datblygu'r campws menter newydd ac arloesol, canolfan filfeddygol o'r radd flaena…
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15 March 2022
Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd
…lywodraethu gorau posibl ac nad ydym yn gwneud penderfyniadau a all, o bosibl, effeithio'n andwyol ar brifysgolion. Er enghraifft, gwnaeth Prifysgol Aberystwyth fuddsoddiadau eithaf trychinebus mewn campws ym Mauritius, a gostiodd tua £1 miliwn iddyn nhw, yn seiliedig ar ragdybiaeth y byddai nifer f…
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Trustees

17 trustees run the charity.

Meri HuwsChairAppointed 1 May 2019
Alan Edwin Henry SpeightAppointed 29 June 2026
Alice LeroyAppointed 1 July 2026
Arwel Vaughan Thomas MrAppointed 1 September 2022
Claire Marie VaughanAppointed 1 September 2022
Daniel Piers RichardsOrganisationAppointed 1 August 2024
Dr Aloysius IgboekwuAppointed 1 August 2024
Dr Patrick Benedict FinneyAppointed 7 October 2026
Gwenno Mair RobertsAppointed 1 July 2026
Kate Alice EdenAppointed 1 August 2020
Kylie EvansAppointed 6 September 2022
Mark Allan TweedAppointed 1 January 2020
Paul Bevan PhD FCMIOrganisationAppointed 1 August 2024
Professor Jonathan TimmisAppointed 1 January 2024
Professor Sarah DaviesAppointed 1 August 2024
Rhuanedd Bethan RichardsAppointed 1 August 2020
Yusuf IbrahimOrganisationAppointed 1 August 2024

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 29 May 2026, 2 days early	Received 29 May 2026
31 July 2024	31 May 2025	Received 28 May 2025, 3 days early	Received 28 May 2025
31 July 2023	31 May 2024	Received 24 May 2024, 7 days early	Received 24 May 2024
31 July 2022	31 May 2023	Received 16 May 2023, 15 days early	Received 16 May 2023
31 July 2021	31 May 2022	Received 1 February 2022, 119 days early	Received 1 February 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: 1145141
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 19 December 2011
Governing document: 1889, ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED BY QUEEN VICTORIA LAST AMENDED DECEMBER 2006, STATUTES, ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS AS AMENDED 27/05/2014 as amended by an Order in Council on 27 Jun 2018
Company number: RC000641This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House
Website: www.aber.ac.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Ceredigion

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

£127,424,000

£132,582,000

1,319

Not reported

31 July 2024

£125,906,000

£99,925,000

1,414

Not reported

31 July 2023

£131,051,000

£130,891,000

1,437

Not reported

31 July 2022

£122,443,000

£150,736,000

1,426

Not reported

31 July 2021

£118,200,000

£120,864,000

1,394

Not reported

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 July 2025

£32,040,000 from 596 grants

£159 from 10 contracts

31 July 2024

£33,839,000 from 532 grants

£374,000 from 15 contracts

31 July 2023

£38,712,000 from 568 grants

£419,000 from 10 contracts

31 July 2022

£34,513,000 from 456 grants

£591,000 from 16 contracts

31 July 2021

£40,967,000 from 529 grants

Not reported

Funder

Type

Jul 2025

Jul 2024

Jul 2023

Medr

Other public body

£11,710,000

Welsh Government

£2,205,000

£3,006,000

£2,562,000

Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

Other public body

£13,073,000

£14,830,000

Funder

Year ending

Amount

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2025

£531,693

Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol

31 March 2024

£483,122

Awarded

Grant

Amount

19 Mar 2025

Garfield Weston FoundationMain Grants award

£50,000

27 Jul 2023

The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link

£499,885

6 Dec 2022

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Aberetwm: Re-imagining Welsh history and legend for a sustainable and peaceful world"

£72,917

20 May 2021

The National Lottery Community FundYoung Voices in Old College

£269,674

23 Jul 2020

The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link

£498,392

23 Jun 2020

Comic ReliefDewis Choice Aberystwyth University Recovery Fundig

£39,544

14 May 2020

The National Lottery Community FundCovid-19 Dewis Choice

£99,998

7 Feb 2020

Garfield Weston FoundationMajor Grants award

£500,000

30 Jan 2020

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"People's Voices in a People's War: Aberystwyth 1939-45:"

£34,500

21 Jan 2020

Comic ReliefDeveloping Legal Protection Guidance & Social Embeddedness when Domestic Abuse and Dementia co-exist

£76,678

Awarded

Grant

Amount

25 Jan 2019

The National Lottery Community FundElder Abuse, Justice and the Voice of Older People

£341,437

9 Jan 2019

Comic ReliefDewis Choice: Dementia, Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) - a whole family approach

£69,937

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyEverDrill: Accessing the interior and bed of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier to forecast future mass loss

£122,746

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - NRC-UKRI Pilot Programme. Prototyping Root System Architecture in Avena: Technologies for Environmental Sustainability and Food Security

£55,323

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Optimising the diversity and resilience of grasses for use in urban environments.

£25,305

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Future forages: Implications of forage response to climate change for ruminant production

£474,783

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Svalbard Futures: Value and Adaptations in the Anthropocene

£94,978

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - A China-UK joint phenomics consortium to dissect the basis of crop stress resistance in the face of climate change

£30,612

1 Apr 2018

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

£150,664

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Developing a process to manufacture lactic acid from waste-derived sugars

£319,041

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - OPTOMS - Optimising the production of thermoset resins from MSW-derived sugars

£105,920

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - A new biotech process for xylitol production from ARCITEKBio Ltd.

£32,055

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - (Un)Stitching the Subjects of Colombia's Reconciliation Process

£231,020

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Newton Bhabha Industrial Waste BIOREVIEW

£1,001,109

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Oat domestication - understanding the origin of a European cereal

£548,307

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - How will glacial meltwater microbes come in from the cold in this "Peak Melt" century?

£613,122

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - RCUK-CIAT Newton Fund - Towards climate-smart forage-based diets for Colombian livestock

£100,772

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - Structure, connectivity and resilience of an exploited ecosystem: towards sustainable ecosystem-based fisheries management

£818,201

1 Apr 2018

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyALB - UKRI - BepiColumbo SIXS

£40,895

27 Oct 2017

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Aberystwyth at War: Experience, Impact, Legacy 1914-1919"

£39,100

22 May 2017

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyF-actin associated proteins implicate new mechanisms involved in SI-PCD

£241,498

25 Apr 2017

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Bywyd Newydd i ’r Hen Goleg / New Life for Old College"

£17,334,874

1 Apr 2017

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyFLOODMAL

£295,553

28 Oct 2016

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"'A 150m-year mystery solved?' Jurassic Heritage Exhibition at Old College with National Museum Wales"

£9,800

1 Sept 2016

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial StrategyA HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR VISIBLE CORONAL EMISSION LINES

£80,063

28 Aug 2016

The National Lottery Community FundVeterans Legal Link (VLL)

£4,997

26 Jun 2015

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Veterans Oral History Project"

£10,000

7 Jan 2015

The National Lottery Community FundElder Abuse and Justice

£889,623

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 July 2025

31 May 2026

Received 29 May 2026, 2 days early

Received 29 May 2026

31 July 2024

31 May 2025

Received 28 May 2025, 3 days early

Received 28 May 2025

31 July 2023

31 May 2024

Received 24 May 2024, 7 days early

Received 24 May 2024

31 July 2022

31 May 2023

Received 16 May 2023, 15 days early

Received 16 May 2023

31 July 2021

31 May 2022

Received 1 February 2022, 119 days early

Received 1 February 2022