Gwent Family History Society

We provide education and training in the techniques of family history research. We encourage the conservation of documents and structures, which record details of social and family history. We sponsor and provide volunteers to undertake research into such documents and thereby act as an umbrella or resource body.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Monmouthshire
• Newport City
• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: County of Gwent and Elsewhere

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 June 2025, it had income of £6,886 and spent £5,361.

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 24%, from £5,555 in the year to 30 June 2021 to £6,886 in the year to 30 June 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 78% of its income in the year to 30 June 2025. 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 £4,580, awarded in 2000.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 20 payments to this charity worth £106 between 12 October 2020 and 14 April 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Fay ParryChairAppointed 27 March 2011
• Claire OttonAppointed 27 March 2011
• Jennifer MullenAppointed 20 October 2015
• Joan DanielsAppointed 5 October 2018
• Keith DanielsAppointed 5 October 2018
• Malcolm Leslie Otton
• Nicola Ann Thomas
• Norman Geoffrey Excell

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

702333

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 January 1990

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 03/10/1998AS AMENDED ON 02/11/2002AS AMENDED ON 30/10/2003AS AMENDED ON 20/10/2012AS AMENDED ON 15 OCT 2016

Website

gwentfhs.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.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

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

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