Friends of St Mary's, Brecon

We support St Marys, Brecon by providing and assisting in the restoration, preservation, repair, improvement and beautification of St Marys church and by providing additional facilities and contributing towards the cost of maintaining the ministry at the church and the day to day costs incidental thereto for and on behalf of the Parochial Church Council or successor.

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

In Wales

• Powys

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £14,216 and spent £1,282.

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 324%, from £3,350 in the year to 5 April 2024 to £14,216 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 9% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent less than its income in each 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 5 April 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £2,000, 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.

12 trustees run the charity.

• Peter JenkinsChairAppointed 30 April 2023
• Bernadette RijnenbergAppointed 26 October 2023
• Christopher WalshAppointed 26 October 2023
• Emma HayesAppointed 31 July 2023
• Fiona MorganAppointed 2 October 2025
• Joanna DaviesAppointed 3 October 2024
• Joanna Robinson-DaviesAppointed 2 October 2025
• Karen HeskethAppointed 30 April 2023
• Liam HosieAppointed 30 April 2023
• Margaret Rebecca GriffithAppointed 31 July 2023
• Nicola MaughanAppointed 30 April 2023
• Phillip ParkAppointed 30 April 2023

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

Of the last 2 annual returns that were due, 2 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

1202893

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

2 May 2023

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 02 May 2023

Website

www.stmarysbrecon.org.uk/friendsAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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