Foothold Cymru

Foothold Cymru is a social justice charity operating in West Wales. Our focus is on tackling the causes and consequences of poverty through a range of capacity building activities and services; recognising that the solutions and the skills to put them in place, are found in the lived experiences of the people and communities affected.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £610,162 and spent £790,518.

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

Down 29%, from £857,757 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £610,162 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 130% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

1% of its income in the year to 31 March 2024 came from government grants and contracts (£10,265).

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: 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 21 grants to this charity since 2009, worth at least £5,163,160.

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.

• 3 June 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec SJTCW

  Purpose: Foothold Cymru, Plant yng Nghymru & Chymdeithas Pêl-droed Cymru / Foothold Cymru, Children in Wales & Football Association of Wales.

  Foothold Cymru, Plant yng Nghymru & Chymdeithas Pêl-droed Cymru / Foothold Cymru, Children in Wales & Football Association of Wales

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Fred St-John Roberts JPChairAppointed 10 September 2019
• David William Timbrell-HillAppointed 11 July 2026
• Derith Powell OBEAppointed 22 October 2015
• James Hugh LewisAppointed 26 September 2006
• Jessica ReesAppointed 22 March 2023
• Katherine ThomasAppointed 22 March 2023
• Michael Goodfellow-SmithAppointed 3 January 2023
• Paolo PianaAppointed 15 November 2021
• Peter Anthony FreemanAppointed 10 September 2019

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

1188696

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 March 2020

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 SEP 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 MAR 2020AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 MAR 2020 as amended on 27 May 2021 as amended on 02 Dec 2021

Company number

02633128This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cbsa.org.ukAs 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.
• 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.
• 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

• OpenCouncil: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin