Carmarthenshire Therapy Dogs

Carmarthenshire Therapy Dogs started in 2015 we recruit volunteers working with their dogs supporting people in their own home, in residential homes, hospitals, dementia settings bringing comfort, reducing loneliness and isolation. We also provide therapy dog visits to groups, special health units and children and young people, we have automated pets for people, where real pets are not allowed.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Ceredigion
• Pembrokeshire
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Across Carmarthenshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £8,457 and spent £2,464.

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 652%, from £1,124 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £8,457 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 29% of its income in the year to 31 March 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2023, worth at least £2,700.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Susan SmithChairAppointed 23 March 2015
• Emily SmithAppointed 23 May 2024
• Gareth CornfieldAppointed 23 May 2024
• Isla-Jane McEwanAppointed 25 October 2025
• Katy Michelle SandersonAppointed 30 January 2026
• Sally Ann CowleyAppointed 18 January 2023

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

1181987

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 February 2019

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 01 APR 2016AS AMENDED ON 07 SEP 2018AS AMENDED ON 10 FEB 2019

Website

www.facebook.com/groups/carmarthenshiretherapydogsAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Carmarthenshire

• 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: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
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