The Trust for Welsh Archaeology

The principal activity of the company during the year was the education of the public in archaeology through the provision of archaeological services.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion
• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Dyfed

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £3,524,011 and spent £4,532,108.

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 389%, from £720,804 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £3,524,011 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 129% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

43% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£1,508,326).

Largest funder

Cadw gave £1,241,173 in the year to 31 March 2025, 35% 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: £1,293,734 from 2 grants. Government contracts: £214,592 from 25 contracts.

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 3 funders who gave £1,360,248 between them. £1,360,248 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £429,989.

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 22 payments to this charity worth £3,918,924 between 5 January 2024 and 29 June 2026.

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.

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

• 18 June 2026, Vale of Glamorgan

  Named in a decision of Planning Committee

  Minutes of the Meeting held on Thursday, 21st May, 2026.

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

• 9 October 2024

  Named by Christopher Catling in the Senedd

  They are all going to be consulted. They are key stakeholders, and we've grouped our stakeholders according to those that we will have detailed conversations with, which are the library, the museum and Heneb—the Trust for Welsh Archaeology—and then those who will be consulted by means of a workshop.

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11 trustees run the charity.

• David Elis-WilliamsAppointed 1 November 2023
• Dr Alexander James LanglandsAppointed 20 April 2026
• Dr Carol BellAppointed 29 January 2024
• Dr Leona Marie HueyAppointed 15 June 2026
• Fiona Elizabeth GaleAppointed 1 November 2023
• Henry Stuart Owen-JohnAppointed 1 November 2023
• Hywel Rhys Richard JohnAppointed 25 July 2019
• Judith WainwrightAppointed 15 May 2019
• Nigel David ClubbAppointed 1 November 2023
• Sian ReesAppointed 1 November 2023
• Steffan Rhys WilliamsAppointed 29 January 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

504616

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 October 1975

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/07/1975AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/03/2014 as amended on 22 Sep 2023 as amended on 22 Sep 2023

Company number

01198990This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.heneb.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

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 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 council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd 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