Penybanc Welfare Association

To provide a recreation ground and welfare amenities for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area of benefit without distinction of political, religious or other opinions with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants (in particular but not exclusively, such of the said inhabitants as are members of the mining community).

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Penybanc and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £79,393 and spent £10,124.

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 608%, from £11,215 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £79,393 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 13% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Carmarthenshire County Council gave £68,970 in the year to 31 March 2025, 87% 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 31 March 2025: £68,970 from 1 grant. 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 31 March 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £68,970. £68,970 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,902, awarded in 2012.

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.

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

• 13 December 2023, Carmarthenshire

  Named in a decision of Cabinet Member for Deputy Leader and Regeneration, Leisure, Culture and Tourism

  MYNYDD Y BETWS WIND FARM COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND ROUND 2 APPLICATIONS.

  Read the meeting record

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8 trustees run the charity.

• Avril WilliamsAppointed 7 December 2025
• David Michael Morgan
• Delyth Elizabeth Evans
• Howard Jones
• Kathryn Elizabeth Morgan
• Mary Elaine DaviesAppointed 18 November 2016
• Shirley JonesAppointed 28 March 2013
• Sian Marie WilliamsAppointed 7 December 2025

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, 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

251632

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 March 1967

Governing document

SCHEME DATED 14 AUGUST 2007

Council area of its contact address

Carmarthenshire

• 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.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 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: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin