Ely Valley Miner's Welfare Association

Provides sports facilities for general public use - bowling green, football field and 3g 5 a side football courts. Clubhouse providing social meeting area for ex miners, OAP club, gardeners club and general public use.

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

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Area of benefit in its governing document: Thomastown and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 January 2025, it had income of £24,952 and spent £17,976.

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 307%, from £6,134 in the year to 31 January 2021 to £24,952 in the year to 31 January 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 72% of its income in the year to 31 January 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 January 2025: £5,000 from 1 grant. 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £4,170, awarded in 2024.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Alun WilliamsAppointed 5 August 2012
• Andrew SimpsonAppointed 24 May 2022
• David Daniel GrehanAppointed 2 May 2023
• Dr David Huw DavisAppointed 30 September 2018
• Lee MayesAppointed 2 May 2023
• Royden KidnerAppointed 31 May 2017
• Sharon JonesAppointed 2 May 2023
• Victoria WesternAppointed 24 May 2022

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

524254

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 December 1967

Governing document

SCHEME OF 21 MAY 2007

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
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• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
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