Newport Civic Society

To Stimulate public interest in, and care for the character, history and future of Newport To encourage high standards of architecture and town planningTo promote the conservation of the best of our older buildingsThe Society also hopes to improve the general quality of life in the city

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

In Wales

• Newport City

Area of benefit in its governing document: Newport and Neighbourhood Excluding Caerleon

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £106 and spent £0.

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 430%, from £20 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £106 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 0% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent less than its income in each 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £8,100, awarded in 2014.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Christopher John Harold EnglandAppointed 23 January 2013
• John Charles FerrisAppointed 19 March 1995
• John Daniel Briggs BAAppointed 13 May 2014
• Martyn VaughanAppointed 14 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

700399

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 June 1988

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 4 MARCH 1974 AND AS AMENDED 9 APRIL 1987 AND AMENDED 13 APRIL 1989 AND 8 MAY 1997

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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

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