Women's Equality Network Wales

Working towards equality for women in Wales

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 £451,127 and spent £367,201.

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 187%, from £157,052 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £451,127 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 81% 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 £173,375 in the year to 31 March 2024, 37% 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: £190,250 from 2 grants. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2024, the charity named 11 funders who gave £462,892 between them. £319,404 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 12 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £1,800,509.

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 22 payments to this charity worth £733,278 between 26 February 2021 and 6 February 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.

• 19 July 2023, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Appointments to the Standards Committee

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

• 17 September 2026

  Named in a written question from Niamh Salkeld

  Addressed to the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality.

  What consideration has the Welsh Government given to the recommendations of Women's Equality Network Wales's 2025 report Transforming Early Education and Childcare in Wales? The Welsh Government has carefully considered the recommendations in the Women’s Equality Network Wales’s 2025 report, includi…

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• 10 June 2026

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …s to return to work, it gives that income to families. The evidence is clear, from bodies such as the Bevan Foundation, Quorum and the Women's Equality Network Wales, that investing in childcare supports getting parents back into work, it raises income, and provides that best possible start in life…

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• 27 January 2026

  Named by Natasha Asghar in the Senedd

  …the pressures I've spoken about have indeed covered education, but I want to talk about women now. The Wales Women’s Budget Group and Women’s Equality Network Wales have also said that they restated funding for childcare, and they've stated it's wholly insufficient to address the structural issues…

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• 14 January 2026

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …r savings at all after paying for childcare. That's not a system that supports families, it's a system that denies them. Research from Women's Equality Network Wales shows that 59 per cent of parents have had to reduce their working hours because of childcare pressures, while 14 per cent have been f…

6 trustees run the charity.

• Mary Ann BrocklesbyChairAppointed 16 November 2021
• Elizabeth EvansAppointed 5 December 2023
• Jennifer RamsayAppointed 16 November 2021
• Katy HalesAppointed 1 August 2022
• Linda Suzanne DaviesAppointed 16 November 2021
• Nina DurantAppointed 5 December 2023

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

1145706

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 February 2012

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 DEC 2011 as amended on 25 Nov 2024

Company number

07891533This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

wenwales.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 2 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
• 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