Friends of Monze

The aim is to relieve or prevent poverty in Monze. FoM assists in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals and community groups to generate income and be self-sufficient.Fund-raising activities include presentations to organisations, individual donations, and grants from grant-giving bodies.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

Elsewhere

• Zambia

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £130,675 and spent £130,709.

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

About the same: £130,675 in the year to 31 December 2025, against £131,517 in the year to 31 December 2021.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

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 December 2025: Not reported. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £2,000, awarded in 2021.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Mrs Virginia Jane Deana OwenChairAppointed 10 September 2013
• Belinda Joan GreenAppointed 12 August 2019
• Paul GreenAppointed 6 February 2016
• Peter Anfield Davies MrAppointed 29 January 2024

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

1154762

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 November 2013

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 27 Nov 2013 as amended on 02 Oct 2023

Website

www.friendsofmonze.orgAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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