Acts West Wales

The activities of ACTS West Wales. 1) Pembrokeshire Food Bank. 2) Cilrath Acre (a community food growing project). Further charitable activities may be added. The financial activity of Pembrokeshire Food Bank has been included in the annual accounts of Grace Church West Wales. Charity Number 1038463 up to 31st March 2015. From 1st April 2015 Acts West Wales has governance responsibility.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £133,714 and spent £127,249.

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 15%, from £115,789 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £133,714 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 95% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

100% of its income in the year to 31 March 2024 came from government grants and contracts (£116,730).

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: £64,177 from 5 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 12 grants to this charity since 2016, worth at least £243,530.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Peter SargentChairAppointed 7 November 2014
• Elaine HutchinsonAppointed 29 September 2022
• Hayley ArcherAppointed 9 October 2021
• Ian MiddlemistAppointed 10 March 2023
• Libby TaylorAppointed 10 March 2023
• Tirzah Redman-KnightAppointed 1 June 2017

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

1157963

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 July 2014

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 23 Jul 2014 as amended on 20 Jun 2024

Website

pembrokeshire.foodbank.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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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