Area 43

To promote the benefit of the young inhabitants of Cardigan and the surrounding area predominately aged 16-25 years without distinction of gender, sexual orientation, race or political, religious or other opinions by the provision of facilities to advance education and provide facilities in the interests of health and social welfare, counselling and advice, recreation and leisure time activities.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Ceredigion
• Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,809,206 and spent £1,661,135.

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 157%, from £703,292 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,809,206 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 92% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

69% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,254,361).

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: £94,473 from 3 grants. Government contracts: £1,159,888 from 4 contracts.

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 29 January 2026, the charity named 8 funders who gave £492,870 between them. £396,137 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.

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 4 grants to this charity since 2025, worth at least £604,995.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Alastair WakelyAppointed 14 November 2023
• Anne Elaine EvansAppointed 12 May 2026
• Mark TaylorAppointed 19 November 2019
• Megan RookerAppointed 2 December 2025
• Rachel TroupAppointed 15 November 2022

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

1181959

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 February 2019

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 11 Feb 2019 as amended on 14 Nov 2023 as amended on 19 Nov 2024

Website

www.area43.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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.

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

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro