Clwyd City of Sanctuary

We aim to make Flintshire a place of welcome and safety to refugees and asylum seekers by relieving their needs and distress. We do this by educating the public on issues relating to sanctuary seekers, promoting understanding & engagement between diverse groups, and improving social welfare of refugees & asylum seekers by preventing & relieving poverty and providing leisure & recreation activities

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

In Wales

• Flintshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £15,440 and spent £11,163.

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 49%, from £10,339 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £15,440 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 72% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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 4 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £12,066.

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.

• Dorothy Elizabeth LitherlandAppointed 1 October 2019
• Helen Julie RobinsonAppointed 12 April 2024
• Maire GreaneyAppointed 1 October 2019
• Patricia Dorothy VineAppointed 1 October 2019
• Sian EdwardsAppointed 23 June 2025
• Stephen John LewisAppointed 23 June 2025

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

1186789

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 December 2019

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 06 Dec 2019 as amended on 23 Jun 2025 as amended on 08 Sept 2025

Website

flintshire.cityofsanctuary.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Flintshire

• 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: Flintshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Flintshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Clwyd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Fflint Wrecsam