League of Friends (Whitchurch Hospital) Supporting Mental Health in Cardiff and the Vale

The objective of the League are to assist patients both in hospital and in community settings with benefits which would otherwise be unavailable to them. The League of Friends disperses funds to help in these objectives.The League operates in the whole of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 April 2025, it had income of £680 and spent £11,576.

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 3%, from £703 in the year to 30 April 2021 to £680 in the year to 30 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 1,702% of its income in the year to 30 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Elizabeth CridlandChairAppointed 1 October 2022
• Cheryl JohnAppointed 1 April 2019
• Ruth YoungAppointed 16 February 2016

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, 3 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

258673

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 May 1969

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 02/05/1969AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 06/03/2013

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.

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

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