Vision Impaired West Glamorgan (Viwg)

The object of the Charity is to :-- Provide assistance to registered blind and partially sighted people within the areas of the City & County of Swansea and Neath & Port Talbot, by making grants of money or providing items, services or facilities.- Consult with blind and partially sighted people in the local area as to their needs and ensure that media is available in an appropriate format.

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

In Wales

• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: City and County of Swansea & Neath Port Talbot County Borough

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £8,260 and spent £5,815.

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 37%, from £13,206 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £8,260 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 70% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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 March 2024: 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £51,222, awarded in 2010.

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.

• Michael DaviesChairAppointed 25 March 2022
• Andrea Gordon
• Andrew OwenAppointed 7 May 2025
• Donna LivotiAppointed 25 March 2022
• Helen JonesAppointed 7 May 2025
• Mark EvansAppointed 25 March 2022
• Melissa SpencerAppointed 7 May 2025
• Roger Rees-EvansAppointed 25 March 2022
• Roslyn JonesAppointed 15 March 2017
• Susan ThomasAppointed 15 March 2017

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

504736

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 November 1975

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 9 SEPTEMBER 1975 AS AMENDED 8 MARCH 1995, 27 NOVEMBER 1998, 27 MARCH 2001, 18 MAY 2006, 5 MAY 2006 AND 15 MAY 2008.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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
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