Friends of the Heart of Wales Line Trail

FHWLT seeks to protect, improve and promote the route of the Heart of Wales Line walking trail from Craven Arms in Shropshire to Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, using public rights of way and roughly following the route of the Heart of Wales railway line. We do this by working with the relevant rights of way authorities. Our volunteers check the route and we raise funds to help to improve it

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• City of Swansea
• Powys

Elsewhere

• Shropshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,909 and spent £1,433.

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 20%, from £2,392 in the year to 31 March 2024 to £1,909 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 75% of its income in the year to 31 March 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 31 March 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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Lisa Mary DenisonChairAppointed 20 February 2023
• Alun Michael WatsonAppointed 20 February 2023
• Andrew Hedley BullAppointed 20 February 2023
• David Robert RoweAppointed 20 February 2023
• John David AshleyAppointed 20 February 2023
• Professor Leslie Malcolm LumsdonAppointed 20 February 2023
• Robin Anthony BarlowAppointed 20 February 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

1204801

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 September 2023

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 19 Sep 2023

Website

www.heart-of-wales.co.uk/experiencesAs 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

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