The Friends of Neath Abbey Iron Company

We preserve for the public's benefit the historic structure and environs of Neath Abbey Ironworks, Neath Abbey, South Wales. This involves vegetation control and conservation work.We advance the public's education regarding the heritage and culture, especially engineering and science, of Neath Abbey Ironworks and its environs. This involves community archaeological digs and educational events.

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

In Wales

• Neath Port Talbot

Area of benefit in its governing document: Local

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £30 and spent £1,237.

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

Down 93%, from £410 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £30 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 4,123% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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 December 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £10,027.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Victor Kean JamesChairAppointed 15 May 2018
• Cathryn Elizabeth Lloyd RichardsAppointed 24 September 2020
• Peter RichardsAppointed 15 May 2018
• Sandra Jane MorganAppointed 24 September 2020

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

1178391

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 May 2018

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 May 2018

Website

www.facebook.com/FriendsofNeathAbbeyIronCompanyAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Neath Port Talbot

• 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: Neath Port Talbot Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Neath Port Talbot's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
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