The Gwent Badger Group

The Group aims to protect and study badgers, and where necessary offers assistance in dealing with the problems they may cause

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Monmouthshire
• Newport City
• Torfaen
• Caerphilly

Area of benefit in its governing document: Gwent and Elsewhere in the United Kingdom

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £916 and spent £503.

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 41%, from £1,561 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £916 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 55% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £2,363, awarded in 2006.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Malcolm JonesAppointed 21 February 2014
• Raul Lopez MateuAppointed 8 March 2026
• Silvia Gonzalez LopezAppointed 8 March 2026
• Stephen John Clark MrAppointed 8 March 2026

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, 4 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

507651

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 June 1978

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 5 JULY 1974 AS AMENDED 26 JANUARY 1978, 24 APRIL 1987, 17 MARCH 1995, 22 MARCH 1996 AND 5 APRIL 2009

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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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