Daring to Dream

Daring to Dream supports the emotional health & well-being of adult patients in clinical care in Wales. Using funds that it has raised, the charity raises awareness & facilitates the improvement of non-clinical spaces in hospitals for patients, their families and the staff who care for them. It also facilitates activities and services that support wellbeing, for inpatients and outpatients.

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 2026, it had income of £74,624 and spent £66,808.

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 112%, from £35,151 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £74,624 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 90% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Postcode Community Lottery gave £25,000 in the year to 31 March 2026, 34% 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 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2026, the charity named 2 funders who gave £26,669 between them. £25,000 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 7 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £103,404.

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.

• 26 March 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min MHWB

  Purpose: Daring to Dream Engagement.

  Daring to Dream Engagement

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• 8 February 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: DM for SS

  Purpose: Grwp Cymdeithasol Mentro i Freuddwydio / Daring to Dream Social Group.

  Grwp Cymdeithasol Mentro i Freuddwydio / Daring to Dream Social Group

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Barbara Chidgey BSc AMECChairAppointed 25 July 2024
• John Beresford ChownAppointed 28 June 2023
• Leigh ManleyAppointed 5 May 2026
• Simon BabarAppointed 5 May 2026
• Susan HellerAppointed 5 May 2026

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

1190590

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 July 2020

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 28 Jul 2020 as amended on 09 Jan 2023 as amended on 09 Dec 2025

Website

www.daringtodream.walesAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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 2 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

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• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth