The Birth Partner Project

Women seeking asylum in Cardiff who would otherwise birth alone are supported with regular visits from volunteers during late pregnancy; with comfort measures and nurturing presence throughout labour and delivery; then home visits to 8 weeks postnatal. We increase women's sense of their own value, their access to information, awareness of options and signpost to appropriate services.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• City of Swansea
• Vale of Glamorgan
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 June 2025, it had income of £141,424 and spent £99,007.

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 312%, from £34,354 in the year to 30 June 2021 to £141,424 in the year to 30 June 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 70% of its income in the year to 30 June 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 June 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.

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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 8 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £125,969.

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.

• 18 June 2024

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  …for the Welsh language learner of the year, is Joseff Gnagbo, originally an asylum seeker from the Ivory Coast; and the top award went to Birth Partner Project as a nation of sanctuary organisation, which ensures no asylum seeker in Cardiff is giving birth alone. I wondered if you could talk to the…

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• 18 June 2024

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …ugee Council's Nation of Sanctuary Awards. I'd like to say 'well done' to all the winners and nominees, but especially to congratulate the Birth Partner Project, which won the Nation of Sanctuary Award for the wonderful work supporting women seeking sanctuary who would otherwise face birth alone. I…

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• 18 May 2023

  Named by Chantal Patel in the Senedd

  …nd to work in—. I’m a member of the African Community Centre, I’m a member of the Indian Society of South West Wales, I’m a trustee of the Birth Partner Project for women who are on their own having to give birth in Cardiff, for example, but I have not heard anyone who has wanted to apply for these…

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• 4 May 2023

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

  Purpose: Birth Partner Project Wales.

  Birth Partner Project Wales

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• 16 March 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for MHWB

6 trustees run the charity.

• Rebecca Catherine WoolleyChairAppointed 1 July 2024
• Christianah UgbajaAppointed 28 July 2022
• Dr Laura ShobiyeAppointed 12 April 2024
• Isabel Margaret LintonAppointed 29 January 2026
• Madeleine Joan McGivernAppointed 12 July 2024
• Suzanne Marie ReesAppointed 30 March 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

1179100

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 July 2018

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 06 Jul 2018 as amended on 10 Jan 2021 as amended on 23 Feb 2024

Website

www.birthpartnerproject.orgAs 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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• 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: 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