Urban Circle Newport

UCN has been a forward-thinking youth development charity that aims to help build, promote and sustain constructive community relationships and individual involvement using a variety of creative platforms. To provide opportunities for young people to be purposely active in pursuing the wellbeing benefits, career potential or formal education of youth & community or the arts sectors.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £605,456 and spent £518,082.

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 221%, from £188,733 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £605,456 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 86% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

71% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£427,317).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £44,934 in the year to 31 December 2025, 7% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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: £387,277 from 2 grants. Government contracts: £40,040 from 2 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 31 December 2025, the charity named 3 funders who gave £47,934 between them. £44,934 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 2 grants to this charity since 2024, worth at least £24,994.

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.

• Peter LandersChairAppointed 1 February 2019
• Deanna HenryAppointed 1 February 2019
• Mark IgguldenAppointed 29 January 2024
• Roiyah SaltusAppointed 29 January 2024
• Rosemary LaingAppointed 29 March 2023
• Roy GrantAppointed 29 January 2024

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

1188058

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 February 2020

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 19 Feb 2020

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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

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