Cardiff Civic Society

The Cardiff Civic Society aims: to promote high standards of planning, architecture and environment affecting the City of Cardiff; to provide education on the environment, history, natural history and architecture; and to secure the preservation, conservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic/public interest in the City of Cardiff.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: The City of Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £2,770 and spent £2,578.

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 35%, from £4,245 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £2,770 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

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

• 10 January 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee

  Budget Consultation 2024/25/Ask Cardiff Briefing

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• 28 February 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Culture Scrutiny Committee

  Draft Corporate Plan 2023-2026 and Budgetary Proposals 2023-2024

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• 23 January 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Maindy Park Trust Advisory Committee

  Proposed Land Exchange at Maindy Park - Additional Further Information

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• 12 December 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Culture Scrutiny Committee

  St David's Hall

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• 12 October 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Maindy Park Trust Advisory Committee

  Proposed Land Exchange at Maindy Park

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

• 23 March 2022

  Named by Paul Davies in the Senedd

  …'s approach has been labelled a destructive strategy that would push away young talent in south-east Wales by Nerys Lloyd-Pierce, chair of Cardiff Civic Society. And TUC general secretary, Shavanah Taj, has said that this is a depressing and divisive approach that risks locking in a low-wage economy…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Nerys Lloyd-pierceChairAppointed 19 October 2011
• Ceri John WilliamsAppointed 12 February 2020
• Dr Elaine DaveyAppointed 25 August 2013
• Julia BarrellAppointed 19 July 2017
• Ken BarkerAppointed 17 October 2025
• Louise Marguerite GrayAppointed 4 June 2024
• Lyn EynonAppointed 10 July 2023
• Sheleagh LLewellynAppointed 20 July 2017
• Tamsin StirlingAppointed 10 July 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, 3 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

517544

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 May 1986

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 25 MARCH 1983 AS AMENDED 12 JUNE 1996AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 19 FEB 2013

Website

www.cardiffcivicsociety.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• 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: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth