The Swansea Astronomical Society

Public open evenings - 6 per year. Presentations at National Waterfront Museum, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Country Parks, talks & visits to other organisations. Evening lecture programme for members. Monthly "star-guide" in local newspaper, and on Society's website. National & local radio presentations.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 April 2025, it had income of £1,999 and spent £2,657.

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 308%, from £490 in the year to 30 April 2021 to £1,999 in the year to 30 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 133% of its income in the year to 30 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher BowdenAppointed 17 January 2025
• Gaynor ThomasAppointed 17 January 2025
• Howard John DaviesAppointed 1 June 2015
• Jeffrey ZorkoAppointed 17 January 2025
• Phillip Ivor John MCMI MCIOFAppointed 1 June 2015
• Robert ElsonAppointed 17 January 2025

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

517700

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 June 1986

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 1948 AS AMENDED 1977 ,10 APRIL 1986, 10 OCTOBER 1996, 25 SEPTEMBER 1997, 10 OCTOBER 1998, 22 MAY 2003, as amended on 01 Sept 2025

Website

www.swanastro.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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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