21 Plus

21 Plus is a charity which supports, nurtures and empowers children and young people with Downs Syndrome and their families.Our activities focus on building the communication skills of our children and young people, providing opportunities to develop friendships and independence and ensuring that families have the necessary information and support to ensure their child reaches their potential.

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire
• Powys
• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Torfaen

Elsewhere

• Herefordshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 1 January 2026, it had income of £83,371 and spent £79,108.

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 78%, from £46,966 in the year to 1 January 2022 to £83,371 in the year to 1 January 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 95% of its income in the year to 1 January 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Blackwood Engineering gave £13,000 in the year to 1 January 2025, 18% 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 1 January 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 1 January 2025, the charity named 3 funders who gave £33,000 between them. £0 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 5 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £53,999.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Gabrielle PreeceChairAppointed 11 January 2021
• Bridgid CorrAppointed 11 January 2021
• Dr Carolyn PenningtonAppointed 21 May 2025
• Emma MellorAppointed 21 May 2025
• Jane WilliamsAppointed 21 May 2025
• Lucinda JamesAppointed 21 May 2025
• Nikki DaviesAppointed 11 January 2021
• Rachel ChampkenAppointed 19 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, 4 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

1194335

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

5 May 2021

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 05 May 2021

Website

21plus.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Blaenau Gwent

• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Blaenau Gwent Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Blaenau Gwent's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni