Cynnal Cymru - Sustain Wales

Cynnal Cymru ? Sustain Wales is the leading organisation for Sustainable Development in Wales. Our mission is to make Wales a low carbon, resource efficient, healthy, just and prosperous society, thriving in balance with the natural ecosystems that support it.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £520,376 and spent £605,147.

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 78%, from £292,715 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £520,376 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 116% 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

Welsh Government gave £157,693 in the year to 31 March 2024, 28% 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: Not reported. Government contracts: £103,000 from 8 contracts.

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 2024, the charity named 2 funders who gave £157,693 between them. £157,693 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.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2019, worth at least £110,000.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 25 payments to this charity worth £581,638 between 21 January 2021 and 28 May 2026.

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.

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

• 19 September 2024

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min CSSP

  Purpose: Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales.

  Cynnal Cymru – Sustain Wales

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11 trustees run the charity.

• Ben MatthewsAppointed 10 December 2025
• Catrin Lowri ReesAppointed 10 December 2025
• Daniel TramAppointed 24 July 2023
• Diane McCrea MBEAppointed 24 April 2019
• Edward MorganAppointed 9 November 2021
• Lesley KirkpatrickAppointed 10 December 2025
• Namrata O'Connell-BhatiaAppointed 10 December 2025
• Nicky HagendykAppointed 22 April 2024
• Nirushan SudarsanAppointed 24 July 2023
• Sera TurkogluAppointed 10 December 2025
• Stuart BainAppointed 10 December 2025

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

1158496

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 September 2014

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19 DEC 2002AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 18/04/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06/09/2014 as amended on 29 Mar 2018 as amended on 13 Mar 2026

Company number

04622047This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cynnalcymru.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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 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

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