South Wales Area Miners' Benevolent Fund

The charity is a grant making and service providing charity which promotes the relief of poverty and hardship and the advancement of education and any other charitable purpose for the benefit of all employees and former employees of the coal mining industry in South Wales.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: South Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £253 and spent £39,457.

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 87%, from £1,994 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £253 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 15,596% of its income in the year to 31 December 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.

• Dorothy Anne LewisAppointed 31 December 2014
• Kevin Thomas Williams
• Martin Roy Parsons

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

500118

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 May 1970

Governing document

RULES ADOPTED 24TH FEBRUARY 1970. AMENDED 3RD MAY 1994

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda