Bridgend Samaritans

Samaritans provide completely confidential emotional support 24 hours a day every day by telephone, face to face, letter and text and outside our branches at festivals, prisons, hospitals, schools, work places and with the homeless through a network of 201 branches in the UK. The vision is that fewer people die by suicide.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan and the Surrounding Area (but Without Specific Limitations As To Area.)

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £42,745 and spent £30,789.

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 10%, from £38,997 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £42,745 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 72% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

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.

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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.

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

• 14 June 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for Social Justice

  Purpose: Bridgend Samaritans.

  Bridgend Samaritans

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• 1 March 2022

  Named by Tom Giffard in the Senedd

  …question and associate myself with a number of the organisations you've mentioned, Sarah? I'm aware of a number of them. And can I also add Bridgend Samaritans to that list as well, who I know do excellent work in Bridgend as well? I think it's really important, and I welcome some of the First Minis…

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew Peter FortuneAppointed 10 July 2025
• Anne-Louise Llewellyn-MorganAppointed 10 July 2025
• Fiona HoustonAppointed 10 July 2025
• James Robert Owen WynneAppointed 15 June 2022
• Thomas Antony JamesAppointed 2 July 2026
• Wendy Xerri JPAppointed 14 June 2023

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

1170848

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 December 2016

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 22/05/1979AS AMENDED ON 13/02/1986AS AMENDED ON 07/10/1991AS AMENDED ON 14/05/2008AS AMENDED ON 06/02/2013AS AMENDED ON 10 FEB 2016AS AMENDED ON 01 APR 2017

Website

www.samaritans.org/branches/bridgend-samaritansAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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.
• 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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg