Soel Connect

Soel Connect runs a gospel music group / choir which seeks to bring hope to our communities through music and arts. Our aim is to pioneer in restoring and rebuilding the brokenness within our communities by leading with our sound and encouraging people to take part in life-changing musical experiences. Our activities and involvements enable social integration, interconnectedness and self-worth.

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 30 September 2025, it had income of £67,463 and spent £81,477.

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 2,028%, from £3,170 in the year to 30 September 2021 to £67,463 in the year to 30 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 121% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025. 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 30 September 2025: £50,804 from 3 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £129,697.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Emmanuel OluwamayowaAppointed 1 October 2015
• Femi DavidAppointed 17 October 2016
• Kenechi NwakiAppointed 1 February 2024
• Kevin MuriithiAppointed 1 February 2024
• Otokoni OkwulehieAppointed 1 October 2015
• Solomon SimukokoAppointed 31 July 2021

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

1171628

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 February 2017

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 Feb 2017

Website

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

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• 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