Canolfan Pentre CIO

Canolfan Pentre is a community hub for wellbeing, we strive to combat loneliness and isolation. We work with third sector partners to provide service for the community and wider community. Canolfan Pentre is run for the community by the community by dedicated volunteers. Through hard work and determination we have created a safe warm and successful environment.

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

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £66,158 and spent £173,960.

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 7%, from £61,868 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £66,158 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 263% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

The National Lottery Community Fund gave £25,772 in the year to 31 December 2025, 39% 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 December 2025: £13,115 from 4 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025, the charity named 7 funders who gave £40,027 between them. £35,772 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 9 grants to this charity since 2016, worth at least £770,902.

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.

• 1 June 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  CAPITAL PROGRAMME 2025/26 UPDATE

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• 12 May 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Education, Young People and the Welsh Language Scrutiny Committee

  PROPOSAL TO RELOCATE YSGOL HEOL GOFFA TO A NEW SITE AND INCREASE ITS CAPACITY TO 150

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• 3 March 2026, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Homes and Regeneration Scrutiny Committee

  2025/26 QUARTER 3 PERFORMANCE REPORT (01/04/2025 - 31/12/2025)

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• 10 December 2025, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  QUESTION FROM COUNCILLOR MARTYN PALFREMAN TO COUNCILLOR JANE TREMLETT, CABINET MEMBER FOR INTEGRATED HEALTH AND CHILDREN AND ADULT SOCIAL SERVICES

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• 12 November 2025, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE LEADER, CABINET MEMBERS AND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE

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• 29 September 2025, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  CAPITAL PROGRAMME 2025/26 UPDATE

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

• 6 February 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: First Minister

  Purpose: Canolfan Pentre Awel.

  Canolfan Pentre Awel

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• 11 December 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: CabsecEEP

  Purpose: Canolfan Pentre Awel official opening.

  Canolfan Pentre Awel official opening

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• 28 September 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Minister for Climate Change

  Purpose: Canolfan Pentre Ifan yr Urdd.

  Canolfan Pentre Ifan yr Urdd

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• 27 September 2023

  Named by Buffy Williams in the Senedd

  I'd like to declare an interest, that I am a trustee of Canolfan Pentre, a registered charity. In 2016, Pentre Primary School in Rhondda closed its doors for the last time. In the years leading to the closure, we also lost our local shops, our local bank and, as a result of David Cameron's and Georg…

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• 4 July 2023

  Named by Buffy Williams in the Senedd

  …od alleviation investment on the way, Rhondda wide, and I'd like to thank both RCT council and NRW for their combined drop-in session held in Canolfan Pentre last week. I know that the First Minister can't be with us today, but he recently visited Tylorstown coal tip, which is in one of its last sta…

4 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew EvansAppointed 25 July 2022
• Elizabeth WilliamsAppointed 15 July 2021
• Georgina Elizabeth Williams CouncillorAppointed 25 July 2022
• Lauren JenkinsAppointed 22 February 2018

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

1166716

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

25 April 2016

Governing document

CIO - Association Registered 25 Apr 2016

Website

canolfanpentre.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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.
• 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: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda