The Widows, Orphans and Dependants Society of the Church in Wales

The main object of the Society is to provide financial assistance to widow(er)s, orphans and dependants of deceased clergy who have previously served in the ministry of the Church in Wales.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined in Practice Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £143,466 and spent £219,544.

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 53%, from £94,075 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £143,466 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 153% 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.

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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 4 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £4,000.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Timothy LlewelynChairAppointed 30 April 2024
• Christine JonesAppointed 30 April 2025
• Clare MorganAppointed 29 May 2025
• Gillian Brenda Knight
• Rev Andrew Stuart GrimwoodAppointed 24 January 2019
• Rev Caroline Ann OwenAppointed 7 February 2022
• Rev Jeremy HarrisAppointed 15 December 2025
• Rosamund Helen CrawfordAppointed 11 January 2022
• The Venerable John HarveyAppointed 11 April 2024
• The Venerable Matthew HillAppointed 8 August 2024

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, 5 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

503271

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 May 1974

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 16 JULY 1931 as amended on 10 May 2022

Company number

00257884This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.churchinwales.org.ukAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

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

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