Wales Women's Budget Group

The WWBG works to bring about a more prosperous and equitable Wales within which all women enjoy an equal share of resources, power and influence. Bringing together economic thinkers, academics, policymakers and women's networks, we exist to influence Welsh and UK spending decisions and resource allocation, ensuring that they are fair and gender equal

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 1 September 2025, it had income of £23,893 and spent £42,258.

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 81%, from £126,577 in the year to 1 September 2023 to £23,893 in the year to 1 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 177% of its income in the year to 1 September 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 3 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 September 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

• 27 January 2026

  Named by Natasha Asghar in the Senedd

  …lls is indeed increasing. Many of the pressures I've spoken about have indeed covered education, but I want to talk about women now. The Wales Women’s Budget Group and Women’s Equality Network Wales have also said that they restated funding for childcare, and they've stated it's wholly insufficient…

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• 13 November 2025

  Named by Dr Jessica Laimann in the Senedd

  …at single-parent households, which, again, in the main, are led by mothers, are over-represented on the social housing waiting list. The Wales Women's Budget Group has recently done some research that hasn't been published yet, but I'm happy to share it with you when it will be, which looked at the…

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• 16 October 2025

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  …That means we've had people from our evidence and analytical units, policy and finance colleagues, and external involvement as well—the Wales Women's Budget Group, for example, which looks at the budget from a gender budgeting perspective. They've been involved in those discussions as well. So, we'…

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• 5 February 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …e pilots are crucially important, the gender budgeting pilots. And can I say how much I welcome and have always welcomed the work of the Wales Women's Budget Group, to make sure that we are advised not just by people, but women particularly with lived experience, representing people with lived exper…

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• 5 February 2025

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …omic hardship, whether through the gender pay gap, pension gap, a lack of access to affordable childcare or insecure, low-paid jobs. The Wales Women’s Budget Group and Women’s Equality Network Wales point to the deprioritisation of equalities issues in the last budget, highlighting the urgent need,…

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• 8 January 2025

  Named by Victoria Vasey in the Senedd

  So, both the Wales Women’s Budget Group and WEN Wales have been involved in the review process as well, and we feel as though the SIAs are much more robust in their present iteration. There is a stronger gender perspective, which we are particularly happy to see. There is a better view of intersecti…

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• 22 January 2024

  Named by Amelia John in the Senedd

  …udgeting work. And in terms of the—and, again, this isn't particularly easy to say—but the budget improvement impact advisory group, the Wales Women's Budget Group are a key partner in that, and that whole group, the BIIAG, are looking at gender budgeting and how we can further embed it within all o…

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• 10 January 2024

  Named by Dr Jessica Laimann in the Senedd

  …becoming siloed because, really, it has to be mainstreamed, it has to be implemented across the whole budgeting process. And I think the Wales Women's Budget Group in particular would be really delighted to work with Welsh Government officials to ensure that this piece of work is progressed.

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• 10 January 2024

  Named by Dr Jessica Laimann in the Senedd

  Good morning. My name's Jessica Laimann. I'm the policy and public affairs manager at Women's Equality Network Wales, but today giving evidence on behalf of the Wales Women's Budget Group and the Women's Equality Network, who've worked on this together.

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• 1 February 2023

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for FLG

  Purpose: Wales Women’s Budget Group (represented by Chwarae Teg) Conference.(Virtual).

  Wales Women’s Budget Group (represented by Chwarae Teg) Conference.(Virtual)

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• 5 July 2022

  Named by Rebecca Evans in the Senedd

  …impatient for change, this change will take time. Looking closer to home, we are pleased to work with experts here in Wales such as the Wales Women’s Budget Group and our own budget improvement impact advisory group. I have been pleased to work with the Senedd's Finance Committee to further explore…

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• 5 July 2022

  Named by Rebecca Evans in the Senedd

  I'm very grateful to Joyce Watson for raising this. I know that she has been a champion of this for many years, and the Wales Women's Budget Group is still going strong and providing really, really constructive challenge to Government. They are telling us that we need to move more quickly on the wor…

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• 29 June 2022

  Named by Rebecca Evans in the Senedd

  …process across the Government. The importance of engaging widely is well made as a point as well. So, we do continue to engage with the Wales Women's Budget Group and with other interested parties through the reformed budget improvement and impact advisory group, and that helps us again to develop…

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• 29 June 2022

  Named by Siân Gwenllian in the Senedd

  …decisions and fiscal policy are being made through this specific lens and to what extent they are endorsed by organisations, such as the Wales Women's Budget Group. Diolch yn fawr. GDP ydy’r mesur mwyaf cyffredin o incwm cenedlaethol—model sydd, wrth gwrs, yn mesur maint y gacen a faint rydym ni yn…

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Cerys Irene FurlongChairAppointed 13 May 2022
• Dr Rachel Anna MintoAppointed 10 June 2024
• Natasha Anne DaviesAppointed 15 October 2024
• Rakhi PatelAppointed 15 October 2024
• Sarah Jane MorganAppointed 15 October 2024

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

Of the last 3 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

1199336

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 June 2022

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 16 Jun 2022

Website

www.wwbg.org.ukAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

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