The Roots Foundation Wales

To support young people in care, leaving care, adult care leavers, those in kinship care and carers. We do this by providing activities, workshops, advice and guidance that promote positive life choices and positive independent living skills.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £246,344 and spent £291,595.

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 27%, from £194,551 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £246,344 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 118% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

63% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£154,675).

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 August 2025: £12,960 from 2 grants. Government contracts: £141,715 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 13 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £449,605.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 2 payments to this charity worth £409,474 between 24 March 2026 and 31 March 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

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

• 7 July 2022, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Announcements of the Presiding Member.

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Anna-Marie DurhamChairAppointed 25 April 2023
• Darrin DaviesAppointed 4 February 2025
• Gemma Salman-WaliAppointed 18 July 2023
• Jason ExeterAppointed 4 February 2025
• Patrick James GreenAppointed 7 October 2024

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, 3 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

1174107

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 August 2017

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 03 Aug 2017

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Swansea Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Swansea's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gŵyr Abertawe
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd