Loaves and Fishes Community Church Merthyr Tydfil

Providing hot meals to the street homeless and food parcels to families caught in food poverty.Provide practical help and support to those struggling to maintain appropriate standards at their property, in conjunction with the housing associations.Provide friendship and pastoral care via church services and home visits.Arrange social and recreational events for local residents.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Merthyr Tydfil

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

The register has no income or spending figures for this charity.

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Income over time

Up 41%, from £11,334 in the year to 1 October 2021 to £15,983 in the year to 1 October 2022.

Spending against income

It spent 92% of its income in the year to 1 October 2022. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 2 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 1 October 2021: £11,000 from 2 grants. 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2021.

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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Calina Cross PastorChairAppointed 1 July 2020
• Lyndon Tracey WilliamsAppointed 22 October 2021
• Melanie Evans-JenkinsAppointed 1 July 2020

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, 1 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

1193919

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 March 2021

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 24 Mar 2021

Council area of its contact address

Merthyr Tydfil

• 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
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