Partnerships Overseas Networking Trust

PONT relieves sickness and poverty and promotes and preserves good health in Uganda by provision of funds, goods and services including counseling and support by means of exchange of people, resources and ideas between Rhondda Cynon Taff in Wales and the Mbale, Manafwa and Bududa districts in Uganda. The main activities relate to health, education, orphan support and NGO capacity building.

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

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Elsewhere

• Uganda

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £321,166 and spent £266,337.

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 £167,094 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £321,166 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 83% 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

Waterloo Trust gave £25,000 in the year to 31 March 2025, 8% 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: 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 March 2025, the charity named 2 funders who gave £44,500 between them. £0 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• John Maurice ComissiongChairAppointed 1 March 2022
• Cllr Jayne BrencherAppointed 1 March 2018
• Dr Gaynor Louise PenroseAppointed 1 March 2022
• Geoff LloydAppointed 4 May 2016
• HOWARD ADRIAN SMITH CEng MIETAppointed 4 May 2016
• Julian Martyn NewtonAppointed 1 March 2018
• Marga Linda QuinceAppointed 1 March 2018
• Richard GriffithsAppointed 1 March 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, 4 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

1166910

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 May 2016

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 04 May 2016

Website

www.pont-mbale.org.ukAs 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

• 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