The Hwb Torfaen

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE THE PEOPLE IN TORFAEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THROUGH: (A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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

In Wales

• Torfaen
• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Newport City

Area of benefit in its governing document: In Blaenavon and the Surrounding Areas

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £525,980 and spent £488,344.

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 112%, from £247,550 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £525,980 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

14% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£76,114).

Largest funder

Lottery Fund gave £300,997 in the year to 31 March 2025, 57% 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: £76,114 from 76,114 grants. Government contracts: None.

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 9 funders who gave £525,698 between them. £396,488 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 8 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £318,334.

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 3 payments to this charity worth £449,965 between 13 May 2025 and 6 August 2025.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Ashleigh Ann TaylorChairAppointed 1 September 2026
• Christopher Paul SmithAppointed 1 September 2026
• David Robert Enderwick CornwellAppointed 1 September 2026
• Lindsay EvansAppointed 6 October 2017
• Rebecca SmithAppointed 4 September 2026

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

1175585

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 November 2017

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 12 MAY 2011AS AMENDED ON 19 OCT 2017 as amended on 16 May 2018

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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 1 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.

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

• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen