Giving Hope Torfaen

Relief of Poverty, support for homeless people and reduction in homelessness, promotion of education and improvement of the lives of the people of Torfaen.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Torfaen

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 4 April 2025, it had income of £38,621 and spent £39,421.

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 1,422%, from £2,537 in the year to 4 April 2022 to £38,621 in the year to 4 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 4 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 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 4 April 2025: £27,242 from 1 grant. 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 £15,300, awarded in 2025.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 21 September 2023, Torfaen

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Ethics and Standards Committee

  Dispensations in respect of Members' Small Schemes / Dosbarthu mewn perthynas a Chynlluniau Back yr Aelodau

  Read the meeting record

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Clint OldridgeAppointed 10 September 2020
• Judy DickinsonAppointed 10 July 2021
• Keir AshmanAppointed 10 September 2020
• Paul Raymond WatkinsAppointed 10 September 2020
• Stephen Robert ManningAppointed 10 September 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 4 annual returns that were due, 3 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

1193953

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 March 2021

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 29 Mar 2021

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen