Purple Shoots Business Lending Ltd

Tackling poverty and unemployment through microfinance and establishing self-reliant groups

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 July 2025, it had income of £450,338 and spent £563,052.

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 185%, from £158,053 in the year to 31 July 2021 to £450,338 in the year to 31 July 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 125% of its income in the year to 31 July 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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 July 2025: £20,795 from 1 grant. 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.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 10 grants to this charity since 2017, worth at least £673,015.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Catherine Anne HealeyAppointed 7 February 2025
• Guto DaviesAppointed 16 May 2025
• Professor Olga Biosca-ArtinanoAppointed 16 May 2025
• Samuel Patrick Sutherland WilliamsAppointed 16 May 2025
• Timothy StumpffAppointed 7 May 2022

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

1155385

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 January 2014

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/08/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/01/2014

Company number

08603690This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.purpleshoots.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
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