Merched y Wawr

MUDIAD GWIRFODDOL SYDD YN TREFNU GWEITHGAREDDAU CYMDEITHASOL AC ADDYSGOL I FERCHED AC SYDD YN HYBU ADDYSG, DIWYLLIANT A'R CELFYDDYDAU YNG NGHYMRU TRWY GYFRWNG Y GYMRAEG.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales Cymru

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £288,392 and spent £308,419.

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 8%, from £314,149 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £288,392 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 107% of its income in the year to 31 August 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 August 2025: £138,262 from 3 grants. 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 180 grants to this charity since 2000, worth at least £632,145.

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 15 payments to this charity worth £795,214 between 16 February 2021 and 13 November 2025.

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.

• 2 March 2026, Gwynedd

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Planning Committee

  Application No C25/0824/37/LL Land Adjacent to Llys Yr Eifl, Trefor, LL54 5BJ

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• 11 December 2024, Carmarthenshire

  Named in an agenda item or minute of County Council

  CHAIR’S ANNOUNCEMENTS (IF ANY)

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• 2 March 2023, Ceredigion

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Personal matters

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

• 4 August 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: First Minister

  Purpose: Eisteddfod - Merched y Wawr.

  Eisteddfod - Merched y Wawr

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• 23 June 2026

  Named in a registered interest of Anna Nicholl, Member of the Senedd

  Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.

  Information relevant to entry: Merched Y Wawr - Member

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• 12 January 2026

  Named by Lindsay Whittle in the Senedd

  …or any other town? Many towns are available in Ynys Môn. Because I think that, certainly, Ynys Môn seems to need to be targeted. There must be Merched y Wawr, the Women's Institute. I know that, in the area where I live, there are lots of Knit and Natter groups springing up, well, let's target those…

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• 16 July 2025

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  …tly where all of them were. All that information is quite definitely readily available. On the broader question of do we know exactly how many Merched y Wawr meetings there are in Wales every week, and where they're happening, probably not.

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• 16 July 2025

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  …vary, wouldn't it? If it is an organisation with which we have a relationship, and often that's a financial relationship, yes, we would know. Merched y Wawr activity, Urdd activity, Clybiau Ffermwyr Ifanc activity—those organisations, because they receive Welsh Government money, we would be able to…

10 trustees run the charity.

• Aeres Mary JamesAppointed 1 September 2026
• Bethan Eleanor Picton-DaviesAppointed 18 May 2023
• Bethan Jones ParryAppointed 1 September 2025
• Beti Wyn JamesAppointed 1 September 2025
• Cheryl Ann WilliamsAppointed 1 September 2026
• Elinor Margaret DaviesAppointed 19 May 2018
• Jacqueline Mary GruffuddAppointed 1 September 2025
• Margarette HughesAppointed 20 May 2023
• Meira EvansAppointed 18 May 2023
• Sarah Mair JonesAppointed 18 May 2023

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

506789

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 April 1979

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24 FEBRUARY 1979 AS AMENDED 30 NOVEMBER 1996.

Website

www.merchedywawr.cymruAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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.
• 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro