Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations

? Provide support, guidance, training and assistance for community and voluntary organisations within the area.? Provide assistance to community and voluntary groups to access funding in order to meet their organisations objectives.? Facilitate the capacity building and expansion of the Third sector and to assist in the training and development of volunteersWork in partnership

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 £1,140,321 and spent £876,105.

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

Down 20%, from £1,422,531 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,140,321 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 77% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Core gave £303,039 in the year to 31 March 2025, 27% 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: £430,265 from 8 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 2025, the charity named 16 funders who gave £1,041,387 between them. £314,137 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 4 grants to this charity since 2005, worth at least £2,030,850.

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.

• 10 July 2023, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Services, Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Formerly Subject Overview & Scrutiny Committee 2)

  Prevention and Wellbeing, Leisure (Halo) and Cultural Trusts (Awen) and Further Integration with BAVO

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• 6 March 2023, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Town & Community Council Forum

  Cost Of Living / Warm Hubs

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• 9 March 2022, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  To receive announcements by the Leader

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• 8 March 2022, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Update On Refugee Resettlement Schemes

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• 2 February 2022, Bridgend

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Social Services, Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Formerly Subject Overview & Scrutiny Committee 2)

  Progress in Delivering Priorities for Wellbeing, Leisure and Cultural Services in Bridgend

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

• 17 January 2023

  Named by Sarah Murphy in the Senedd

  …ional databank initiative that provides free mobile data, texts and calls to people in need. I've also been liaising with the Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations, and a Welsh broadband company, Ogi, who are delivering high-speed broadband across Porthcawl—[Interruption.]—and Caerphilly t…

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Stephen CurryChairAppointed 22 March 2012
• Amanda EdwardsAppointed 28 January 2022
• M Major MBEAppointed 6 December 2013
• Marged GriffithsAppointed 27 September 2018
• Phil Fiander OBEAppointed 1 August 2021
• Phillip JohnAppointed 3 January 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, 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

1146543

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 March 2012

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/07/2011

Company number

07691764This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.bavo.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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.

• 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: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg