Grow Cardiff

Grow Cardiff is a charity that promotes and enables people to grow their own food, through our community allotment to our outreach work across Cardiff we are a passionate organisation that aims to change the way we think about food.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £247,457 and spent £257,864.

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 92%, from £128,987 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £247,457 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 104% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

13% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026 came from government grants and contracts (£32,377).

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 2026: £11,317 from 1 grant. Government contracts: £21,060 from 1 contract.

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.

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.

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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 10 grants to this charity since 2016, worth at least £161,576.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 20 January 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Culture Scrutiny Committee

  Cardiff Council Allotments

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• 26 January 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

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

• 13 September 2023

  Named by Kellie Beirne in the Senedd

  …clearly, many more opportunities to come, particularly around the research and development space, which for us is critical. If we're going to grow the Cardiff capital region economy in the right ways, then we have to invest in high-productivity mechanisms, so a research and innovation system is real…

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• 19 May 2022

  Named by Yr Athro Carolyn Wallace in the Senedd

  …rdiff with the Lansdowne Road surgery. There's a very good example there of GPs working with link workers, linking out to Grow Well, which is a Grow Cardiff scheme. But we've also got Elemental right across north Wales. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board have purchased Elemental to link up thei…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Alun Gwynne JonesChairAppointed 2 December 2020
• Aisling JudgeAppointed 5 November 2016
• Francoise CurtisAppointed 11 December 2019
• Geoffrey William Lewis Austen SmithAppointed 25 January 2024
• John Daniel OwenAppointed 17 November 2022
• Penelope SmithAppointed 10 September 2021
• Phillip Meirion GeorgeAppointed 9 September 2026
• Rachel Miles-BakerAppointed 16 July 2025
• Sarah GriffithsAppointed 2 November 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

1161591

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 May 2015

Governing document

CIO - Association Registered 08 May 2015

Website

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

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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth