Registered charity 1201058

The Baptist Union of Wales

What it does

Relgious activities support to Baptist Chapels

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

Its charitable purposes

THE OBJECT OF THE UNION IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS PRACTICE, ESPECIALLY BY THE MEANS OF AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: 5.1 TO PROPAGATE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.5.2. TO CULTIVATE AMONGST ITS OWN MEMBERS RESPECT LOVE AND CO-OPERATION FOR AND WITH ONE ANOTHER, AND TO ALL WHO LOVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHILST RESPECTING THE INDEPENDENCE OF EVERY CHURCH IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO ITS OWN GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE;5.3. TO SUPPORT CHURCHES IN MISSION AND MINISTRY, INCLUDING THE FORMATION OF CHURCHES, CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AND ALL AGE MINISTRIES AND BY SUCH OTHER METHODS AS THE COUNCILS OR JOINT COUNCIL SHALL DETERMINE. 5.4. TO AFFORD OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONFERENCE AND FOR UNITED ACTION ON QUESTIONS AFFECTING THE WELFARE OF THE CHURCHES, THE SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY AND THE EXTENSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD;5.5. TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN BAPTISTS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES;5.6. TO SAFEGUARD THE PROPERTIES AND INTERESTS OF THE UNION AND ITS CHURCHES, AND TO CONSIDER THE MOST APPROPRIATE MEANS TO NURTURE THESE RESOURCES FOR THE GOOD OF THE UNION, THE CHURCHES AND THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST;5.7. TO OBTAIN AND DISSEMINATE ACCURATE INFORMATION RESPECTING THE ORGANISATIONS, LABOURS AND SUFFERINGS OF BAPTISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; AND5.8 TO CONFER AND CO-OPERATE WITH OTHER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AS OCCASION MAY REQUIRE.

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: Religious activities
Who it helps: Other charities and voluntary bodies
The general public
How it works: Makes grants to organisations
Provides other finance
Provides services
Acts as an umbrella or resource body

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

In Wales

Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £611,358 and spent £649,347.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 December 2025	£611,358	£649,347	13	25
31 December 2024	£814,479	£568,363	11	10
31 December 2023	£3,807,837	£187,360	11	Not reported

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.

Financial position

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 84%, from £3,807,837 in the year to 31 December 2023 to £611,358 in the year to 31 December 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 106% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 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 funding, as the charity reported it

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 December 2025	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2024	Not reported	Not reported
31 December 2023	Not reported	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.

Where its income came from in the year ending 31 December 2025

Donations and legacies£453,829
Trading and fundraising£2,312
Investments£131,225
Other£23,992

From the charity's annual return. Only charities with income over £500,000 give this breakdown.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

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.

In council meetings

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

11 February 2026, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of SACRE
APOLOGIES
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18 November 2025, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of SACRE
APOLOGIES
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24 June 2025, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of SACRE
APOLOGIES
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2 July 2024, Gwynedd
Named in an agenda item or minute of SACRE
APOLOGIES
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In the Senedd and Welsh Government

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

26 April 2023
Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd
…d retired, he informed the authorities that he was not interested in a gong, but he was happy enough to be honoured by the Gorsedd and the Baptist Union of Wales. The world of education, the Welsh language and the Baptists have lost a great friend following the death of Illtyd Lloyd. It is a great p…
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23 March 2022
Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd
…t be Members of different political parties, but we have a great deal in common, and one of those things is that we're both members of the Baptist Union of Wales. I welcome you to cheer that point. One name given to chapels in the past was 'tŷ cwrdd', which literally means meeting house—that's where…
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16 February 2022
Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd
As an intervention there, on the point you make, Darren Millar, Samuel Kurtz and I met with the Baptist Union of Wales last week, and the issues that chapels are having with Cadw, of being unable to renovate the buildings at all and then the chapel closes and everything goes and the building is demo…
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Trustees

8 trustees run the charity.

William DaviesChairAppointed 31 July 2023
Ann Bowen MorganAppointed 31 July 2023
Delyth Eirlys WilliamsAppointed 31 July 2023
Glyndwr Samuel PrideauxAppointed 31 July 2023
Parch Emlyn DoleAppointed 31 July 2023
Parch STEVEN WALLISAppointed 31 July 2023
Rev Simeon BakerAppointed 16 April 2026
Rev Susan PhillipsAppointed 3 April 2025

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

Filing record

Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 2 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 December 2025	31 October 2026	Received 26 October 2026, 5 days early	Received 26 October 2026
31 December 2024	31 October 2025	Received 31 October 2025	Received 31 October 2025
31 December 2023	31 October 2024	Received 21 February 2025, 113 days late	Received 21 February 2025

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.

About this charity

Charity number: 1201058
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 17 November 2022
Governing document: CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 17 Nov 2022 as amended on 04 Jul 2025 as amended on 11 Jul 2026
Website: buw.walesAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Carmarthenshire

Sources

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 council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 December 2025

£611,358

£649,347

31 December 2024

£814,479

£568,363

31 December 2023

£3,807,837

£187,360

Not reported

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 December 2025

Not reported

31 December 2024

Not reported

31 December 2023

Not reported

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 December 2025

31 October 2026

Received 26 October 2026, 5 days early

Received 26 October 2026

31 December 2024

31 October 2025

Received 31 October 2025

31 December 2023

31 October 2024

Received 21 February 2025, 113 days late

Received 21 February 2025