United Purpose

United Purpose's activities can be broadly summarised as follows:Partnership and local capacity strengthening;Emergency prevention, preparedness and response; Health, including HIV/AIDS prevention and care; Rights and equity; Water and sanitation;Sustainable livelihoods, including food security and micro-enterprise.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff

Elsewhere

• Bangladesh
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• The Gambia
• Guinea
• Kenya
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Nigeria

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £3,777,039 and spent £3,398,568.

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 58%, from £8,900,345 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £3,777,039 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 90% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

UNDP gave £665,632 in the year to 31 December 2025, 18% 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 December 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025, the charity named 11 funders who gave £2,719,308 between them. £0 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 17 grants to this charity since 2004, worth at least £5,704,196.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £600,000, on 4 March 2021.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

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

• 19 November 2025

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …ilt with police and other criminal justice stakeholders in Wales, and we work collaboratively. The key purpose, of course, of all of this, the united purpose, is keeping Wales safe and serving our communities. Our relationship with partners in local government and policing in Wales is strong, and of…

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• 7 March 2022

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for Social Justice

  Purpose: United Purpose.

  United Purpose

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• 9 November 2021

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …cern. This is why I am proud we have been able to support a number of different projects with this extra funding. One example is Cardiff-based United Purpose, which has been providing a rapid emergency response to COVID in Nigeria, the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea, reaching over 4 million of the poore…

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• 9 November 2021

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

  …and regret at the cut of the funding to the overseas budget. And just to finally say that closing a project in Malawi as a result of that cut, United Purpose in Cardiff said that the largest climate-resilience building project in Malawi has been terminated at short notice directly because of this cu…

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• 9 November 2021

  Named by Jane Hutt in the Senedd

4 trustees run the charity.

• Dervla OwensAppointed 8 December 2021
• Geoff MeagherAppointed 28 February 2023
• Hadi HusaniAppointed 7 January 2016
• Mary RobinsonAppointed 25 June 2018

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

272465

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 December 1976

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 SEP 1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 OCT 1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 NOV 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 21 JUL 2016 as amended on 10 Sep 2019 as amended on 16 Oct 2019 as amended on 04 Aug 2021

Company number

01278887This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.united-purpose.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth