Registered charity 1150422

Ace (Action in Caerau and Ely)

What it does

ACE (Action in Caerau & Ely) is a Charity located in Ely and Caerau, Cardiff. ACE aims to bring the community together, support community groups, manage and develop local projects, and find ways of regenerating the local community.

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

Its charitable purposes

3.1. The objects of the Company shall be:a) To develop the capacity and skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged communities of Cardiff in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in societyb) The promotion for the public benefit of urban regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation in the area of Cardiff by all or any of the following means: i. the relief of poverty in such ways as may be thought fit; ii. the relief of unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment; iii. the advancement of education, training or retraining, particularly among unemployed people, and providing unemployed people with work experience; iv. The advancement of education in and appreciation of the arts, heritage culture and creative activities;v. the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance, or business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help in setting up their own business, vi. the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms; vii. the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities; viii. the provision or assistance in the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large and/ or those who, by reasons of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities; ix. the provision of public health facilities and childcare; x. such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales.c) The relief of financial hardship among people living or working in Cardiff, South Wales by providing such persons with goods/services which they could not otherwise afford through lack of means.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: General charitable purposes
Education and training
Preventing or relieving poverty
Economic and community development, and employment
Who it helps: Children and young people
Older people
Disabled people
People of a particular ethnic or racial origin
Other charities and voluntary bodies
The general public
How it works: Provides staff or volunteers
Provides buildings, facilities or open space
Provides services
Provides advocacy, advice or information
Acts as an umbrella or resource body

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

Where it works

In Wales

Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,202,518 and spent £1,360,790.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 March 2025	£1,202,518	£1,360,790	35	50
31 March 2024	£1,514,829	£1,365,052	35	30
31 March 2023	£1,198,348	£1,549,544	39	45
31 March 2022	£2,070,402	£1,208,892	25	50
31 March 2021	£1,342,043	£1,020,241	25	30

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 10%, from £1,342,043 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,202,518 in the year to 31 March 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.
Largest funder: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board gave £368,165 in the year to 31 March 2025, 31% 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: £153,837 from 2 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 March 2025	£153,837 from 2 grants	Not reported
31 March 2024	£132,448 from 2 grants	Not reported
31 March 2023	£194,301 from 3 grants	Not reported
31 March 2022	£131,584 from 3 grants	Not reported
31 March 2021	£285,647 from 2 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 March 2025

Donations and legacies£9,569
Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£1,069,211
Trading and fundraising£106,334
Investments£17,404

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 24 funders who gave £1,066,956 between them. £546,062 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 2023
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board	NHS	£368,165	£269,092
Invest Local Trust	Trust, company or other	£253,947
Cardiff Council	Council	£110,212	£154,500
Cardiff University	Trust, company or other	£61,993	£28,993
Secretary of State for Justice	Trust, company or other	£53,066
Welsh Government	Welsh Government	£43,625	£35,515
Wales and West Housing	Trust, company or other	£28,564
Arts Council of Wales	Other public body	£21,060
Greggs	Trust, company or other	£20,710
Awards For All	Trust, company or other	£19,866
Hubbub	Trust, company or other	£16,000
Cwmpas	Trust, company or other	£13,663	£27,655
Citizens Advice	Trust, company or other	£12,639	£7,250
Care & Repair	Trust, company or other	£10,000	£9,000
Dusty Shed	Trust, company or other	£8,874	£8,148
Friends of the Earth Trust	Trust, company or other	£7,600
Save the Children	Trust, company or other	£5,000	£2,400
Simon Gibson Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other	£4,142
Community Foundation Wales	Other public body	£3,000
C3SC	Trust, company or other	£2,250	£12,951
Nisa	Trust, company or other	£1,000
Good Things Foundation	Trust, company or other	£1,000
Charities Trust	Trust, company or other	£500
New Economics Foundation	Trust, company or other	£80
The National Lottery Community Fund	National Lottery		£201,174
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	National Lottery		£113,031
Charities Aid Foundation	Trust, company or other		£62,221
Children in Need	Trust, company or other		£40,987
Wales Restorative Approaches Partnership	Trust, company or other		£31,015
Macmillan	Trust, company or other		£26,142
Bevan Foundation	Trust, company or other		£23,964
Independent Age	Trust, company or other		£20,000
Food Sense Wales	Trust, company or other		£10,844
Grow Cardiff	Trust, company or other		£5,900
Glamorgan Voluntary Services	Trust, company or other		£4,890
DWP	Trust, company or other		£4,286
The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust	Trust, company or other		£3,000
School of History	Trust, company or other		£2,500
University of South Wales	Trust, company or other		£2,000
Energy Saving Trust	Trust, company or other		£1,286
Making a Difference Locally	Trust, company or other		£1,000
Cardiff People First	Trust, company or other		£750
ProMo-Cymru	Trust, company or other		£625
Groundwork UK	Trust, company or other		£500
Asda	Trust, company or other		£200
Ely and Caerau Children's Centre	Trust, company or other		£200
Church Action Poverty	Trust, company or other		£168
Whitfield Pantry	Trust, company or other		£100

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 it paid to others

Recipient	Year ending	Amount
Ecsopa	31 March 2025	£19,540
Hope Trust	31 March 2025	£172,901
In It Together	31 March 2025	£500
Commonwealth Theatre	31 March 2025	£4,500
South Riverside Community Development	31 March 2025	£4,000
Together For Trowbridge	31 March 2025	£1,375
Cardiff People First	31 March 2025	£5,424
Community Care & Wellbeing Service	31 March 2025	£23,619
Benthyg	31 March 2025	£2,700
Save The Children	31 March 2025	£22,435
The Healthy Horse Project Pony Club	31 March 2023	£2,500
Reflect Community Church and Centre	31 March 2023	£450
St Mellons Clean Up Group	31 March 2023	£650
Tempo Time Credits	31 March 2023	£18,128
10th Ely Rainbows	31 March 2023	£250
Cardiff Imperial	31 March 2023	£250
Ecsopa	31 March 2023	£20,672
Hope Trust	31 March 2023	£25,015
Ely and Caerau Litter Pickers	31 March 2023	£76
Caerau and Ely Mini and Juniors Rugby Club	31 March 2023	£500

From its own accounts. Read by the same AI accounts reader.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 16 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £1,905,119.

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£1,228,200, 3 grants
The National Lottery Community Fund£608,886, 7 grants
The Greggs Foundation£59,533, 2 grants
Community Foundation in Wales£6,000, 2 grants
Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation£2,500, 2 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
1 Jul 2025	The National Lottery Community FundEly and Caerau cooking for our health and planet club	£19,901
16 Jul 2024	The Greggs FoundationLarge Community Grants	£39,820
15 May 2024	Community Foundation in WalesGrant to Action in Caerau & Ely (ACE)	£3,000
19 Mar 2024	The National Lottery Community FundYourspace Library of Health and Wellbeing	£19,866
16 Nov 2023	Yorkshire Building Society Charitable FoundationGrant to ACE	£500
18 Jul 2023	The Greggs FoundationCommunity Hub Programme	£19,713
10 Dec 2021	The National Lottery Community FundDiana Garden Regeneration Project	£8,596
4 Aug 2021	Yorkshire Building Society Charitable FoundationGrant to ACE	£2,000
9 Jul 2021	Community Foundation in WalesGrant to Action in Caerau & Ely (ACE)	£3,000
22 Feb 2019	The National Lottery Community FundYour Local Pantry Dusty Forge	£9,288

All 16 grants

Grants awarded, newest first
Awarded	Grant	Amount
26 Jul 2018	The National Lottery Community FundHWF Working Well	£544,320
7 Dec 2016	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Hidden Hillfort Project"	£1,208,900
12 Nov 2016	The National Lottery Community FundA celebration of the Dusty Forge	£1,960
29 Mar 2016	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Art tells the story of WW1"	£9,700
3 Oct 2012	The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Pathway to the Past"	£9,600
30 Aug 2012	The National Lottery Community FundYoung Energy Poeple (YEP!)	£4,955

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £26,946, on 25 March 2026.

Payments from public bodies, from their spending data
Public body	Paid	Payments	Financial years
Welsh Governmentits spending data	£26,946	1	2025/26

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.

3 March 2022, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Declarations of Interest
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3 March 2022, Cardiff
Bradbury declared an interest that names the charity, at Council
Recorded as a other interest.
Read the meeting record

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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

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

31 March 2025
Named by Eleri Williams in the Senedd
We work quite closely with ACE, Action in Caerau and Ely, so we understand quite a lot about the approach to the development of the community plan. We spoke to them at great length and we think we do identify this as best practice. That was the public sector organisations funding a trusted, recognis…
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31 March 2025
Named by Dr Lindsay Cordery-Bruce in the Senedd
…dible voice or not, which was really encouraging when we saw the third sector-led response to the riots in Ely. An organisation called ACE, Action in Caerau and Ely, were invited by the responsible authorities to lead the response and to lead the cohesive communities plan. I think there are 40 actio…
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18 February 2025
Named by Sarah Murphy in the Senedd
…Trust Limited; St David's Hospice Care; Hope Trust Cardiff, the charitable incorporated organisation; The Junction; Canolfan Felin Fach; ACE—Action in Caerau & Ely; Cruse Bereavement Support, Cruse Cymru; the Paul Sartori foundation; Age Cymru Dyfed and Age Cymru Powys; and Llamau. So, I'm more than…
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Trustees

7 trustees run the charity.

Marian DixeyChairAppointed 1 May 2017
Dr Eva ElliotAppointed 1 March 2023
James RoachAppointed 28 November 2019
Janice RefaloAppointed 1 March 2023
Jessica DaviesAppointed 28 October 2024
Leyton Devril SmithAppointed 28 April 2020
Melvin WitherdenAppointed 1 April 2017

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 14 January 2026, 17 days early	Received 14 January 2026
31 March 2024	31 January 2025	Received 22 January 2025, 9 days early	Received 22 January 2025
31 March 2023	31 January 2024	Received 29 November 2023, 63 days early	Received 29 November 2023
31 March 2022	31 January 2023	Received 23 December 2022, 39 days early	Received 23 December 2022
31 March 2021	31 January 2022	Received 1 December 2021, 61 days early	Received 1 December 2021

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: 1150422
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 10 January 2013
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 MAY 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 NOV 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19 SEP 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 JUL 2022 as amended on 24 Oct 2022
Company number: 07623914This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House
Website: www.aceplace.orgAs 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

£1,202,518

£1,360,790

31 March 2024

£1,514,829

£1,365,052

31 March 2023

£1,198,348

£1,549,544

31 March 2022

£2,070,402

£1,208,892

31 March 2021

£1,342,043

£1,020,241

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 March 2025

£153,837 from 2 grants

Not reported

31 March 2024

£132,448 from 2 grants

Not reported

31 March 2023

£194,301 from 3 grants

Not reported

31 March 2022

£131,584 from 3 grants

Not reported

31 March 2021

£285,647 from 2 grants

Not reported

Funder

Type

Mar 2025

Mar 2023

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

NHS

£368,165

£269,092

Invest Local Trust

Trust, company or other

£253,947

Cardiff Council

Council

£110,212

£154,500

Cardiff University

Trust, company or other

£61,993

£28,993

Secretary of State for Justice

Trust, company or other

£53,066

Welsh Government

£43,625

£35,515

Wales and West Housing

Trust, company or other

£28,564

Arts Council of Wales

Other public body

£21,060

Greggs

Trust, company or other

£20,710

Awards For All

Trust, company or other

£19,866

Hubbub

Trust, company or other

£16,000

Cwmpas

Trust, company or other

£13,663

£27,655

Citizens Advice

Trust, company or other

£12,639

£7,250

Care & Repair

Trust, company or other

£10,000

£9,000

Dusty Shed

Trust, company or other

£8,874

£8,148

Friends of the Earth Trust

Trust, company or other

£7,600

Save the Children

Trust, company or other

£5,000

£2,400

Simon Gibson Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£4,142

Community Foundation Wales

Other public body

£3,000

C3SC

Trust, company or other

£2,250

£12,951

Nisa

Trust, company or other

£1,000

Good Things Foundation

Trust, company or other

£1,000

Charities Trust

Trust, company or other

£500

New Economics Foundation

Trust, company or other

£80

The National Lottery Community Fund

National Lottery

£201,174

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

National Lottery

£113,031

Charities Aid Foundation

Trust, company or other

£62,221

Children in Need

Trust, company or other

£40,987

Wales Restorative Approaches Partnership

Trust, company or other

£31,015

Macmillan

Trust, company or other

£26,142

Bevan Foundation

Trust, company or other

£23,964

Independent Age

Trust, company or other

£20,000

Food Sense Wales

Trust, company or other

£10,844

Grow Cardiff

Trust, company or other

£5,900

Glamorgan Voluntary Services

Trust, company or other

£4,890

DWP

Trust, company or other

£4,286

The D'oyly Carte Charitable Trust

Trust, company or other

£3,000

School of History

Trust, company or other

£2,500

University of South Wales

Trust, company or other

£2,000

Energy Saving Trust

Trust, company or other

£1,286

Making a Difference Locally

Trust, company or other

£1,000

Cardiff People First

Trust, company or other

£750

ProMo-Cymru

Trust, company or other

£625

Groundwork UK

Trust, company or other

£500

Asda

Trust, company or other

£200

Ely and Caerau Children's Centre

Trust, company or other

£200

Church Action Poverty

Trust, company or other

£168

Whitfield Pantry

Trust, company or other

£100

Recipient

Year ending

Amount

Ecsopa

31 March 2025

£19,540

Hope Trust

31 March 2025

£172,901

In It Together

31 March 2025

£500

Commonwealth Theatre

31 March 2025

£4,500

South Riverside Community Development

31 March 2025

£4,000

Together For Trowbridge

31 March 2025

£1,375

Cardiff People First

31 March 2025

£5,424

Community Care & Wellbeing Service

31 March 2025

£23,619

Benthyg

31 March 2025

£2,700

Save The Children

31 March 2025

£22,435

The Healthy Horse Project Pony Club

31 March 2023

£2,500

Reflect Community Church and Centre

31 March 2023

£450

St Mellons Clean Up Group

31 March 2023

£650

Tempo Time Credits

31 March 2023

£18,128

10th Ely Rainbows

31 March 2023

£250

Cardiff Imperial

31 March 2023

£250

Ecsopa

31 March 2023

£20,672

Hope Trust

31 March 2023

£25,015

Ely and Caerau Litter Pickers

31 March 2023

£76

Caerau and Ely Mini and Juniors Rugby Club

31 March 2023

£500

Awarded

Grant

Amount

1 Jul 2025

The National Lottery Community FundEly and Caerau cooking for our health and planet club

£19,901

16 Jul 2024

The Greggs FoundationLarge Community Grants

£39,820

15 May 2024

Community Foundation in WalesGrant to Action in Caerau & Ely (ACE)

£3,000

19 Mar 2024

The National Lottery Community FundYourspace Library of Health and Wellbeing

£19,866

16 Nov 2023

Yorkshire Building Society Charitable FoundationGrant to ACE

£500

18 Jul 2023

The Greggs FoundationCommunity Hub Programme

£19,713

10 Dec 2021

The National Lottery Community FundDiana Garden Regeneration Project

£8,596

4 Aug 2021

Yorkshire Building Society Charitable FoundationGrant to ACE

£2,000

9 Jul 2021

Community Foundation in WalesGrant to Action in Caerau & Ely (ACE)

£3,000

22 Feb 2019

The National Lottery Community FundYour Local Pantry Dusty Forge

£9,288

Awarded

Grant

Amount

26 Jul 2018

The National Lottery Community FundHWF Working Well

£544,320

7 Dec 2016

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"The Hidden Hillfort Project"

£1,208,900

12 Nov 2016

The National Lottery Community FundA celebration of the Dusty Forge

£1,960

29 Mar 2016

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Art tells the story of WW1"

£9,700

3 Oct 2012

The National Lottery Heritage Fund"Pathway to the Past"

£9,600

30 Aug 2012

The National Lottery Community FundYoung Energy Poeple (YEP!)

£4,955

Public body

Paid

Payments

Financial years

Welsh Governmentits spending data

£26,946

2025/26

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 March 2025

31 January 2026

Received 14 January 2026, 17 days early

Received 14 January 2026

31 March 2024

31 January 2025

Received 22 January 2025, 9 days early

Received 22 January 2025

31 March 2023

31 January 2024

Received 29 November 2023, 63 days early

Received 29 November 2023

31 March 2022

31 January 2023

Received 23 December 2022, 39 days early

Received 23 December 2022

31 March 2021

31 January 2022

Received 1 December 2021, 61 days early

Received 1 December 2021