Merlins Bridge Welfare Centre

To promote all suitable educational, social and sports facilities of the Merlins Bridge district. The Committee shall make provision for the holding of meetings, lectures and classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation for the benefit of the inhabitants of Merlins Bridge and district to improve the conditions of life in the neighbourhood.

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

In Wales

• Pembrokeshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Merlins Bridge

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £21,508 and spent £20,580.

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 15%, from £18,663 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £21,508 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 96% of its income in the year to 31 March 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.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. 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 £5,000, awarded in 2011.

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.

• Claire Louise BrimblecombeAppointed 6 April 2023
• Jean Thelma BulmerAppointed 28 June 2017
• Jemma Louise DaviesAppointed 28 June 2017
• Meryl HancockAppointed 1 April 2016
• Sonia Yvonne BallAppointed 1 April 2016
• Vincent ColeAppointed 1 April 2016

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

524433

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 February 1967

Governing document

CONVEYANCE DATED 31 DECEMBER 1945 AND 29 JULY 1963 AS AMENDED BY FULLY REGULATING SCHEME DATED 2 FEBRUARY 2006

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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.

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