Welsh Housing Aid Limited

Shelter Cymru exists to defend the right to a safe home, because home is everything. We will always fight for home, and for everyone without one. Together, we can fight the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and society. We never give up.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 September 2025, it had income of £5,144,491 and spent £5,115,498.

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 18%, from £4,376,814 in the year to 30 September 2021 to £5,144,491 in the year to 30 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 99% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

67% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£3,448,722).

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £2,279,375 in the year to 30 September 2025, 44% 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 30 September 2025: £2,612,032 from 9 grants. Government contracts: £836,690 from 6 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 30 September 2025, the charity named 21 funders who gave £3,773,255 between them. £2,743,007 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 29 grants to this charity since 2004, worth at least £4,342,758.

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 52 payments to this charity worth £10,772,317 between 4 February 2021 and 30 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.

• 24 May 2022, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Announcements of the Presiding Member/Head of Paid Service.

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

13 trustees run the charity.

• Michael TheodoulouChairAppointed 10 March 2022
• Andrew James ClennellAppointed 11 March 2021
• Ceri Huw BreezeAppointed 16 October 2018
• Cheryl TracyAppointed 23 June 2022
• Felicity McGeownAppointed 1 December 2022
• Gareth Arthur LeechAppointed 23 June 2022
• Helen AntoniazziAppointed 24 September 2026
• John Ceri EdwardsAppointed 24 September 2026
• Kate NewtonAppointed 24 June 2026
• Meri HuwsAppointed 14 October 2019
• Miguela GonzalezAppointed 23 June 2022
• Ruth RyderAppointed 24 September 2026
• Susanna CarterAppointed 24 September 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, 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

515902

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 December 1984

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/07/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/06/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/03/2011

Company number

01830262This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

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.
• 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.

• 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
• OpenCouncil: Swansea Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Swansea's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gŵyr Abertawe
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd