The Representative Body of the Church in Wales
Themes it funds
Money given to charities working on each theme, as each charity describes itself on the register. Many charities list several themes, so these overlap.
| Theme | Given | Share of all money given | Charities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious activities | £3,784,418 | 100% | 4 |
| Accommodation and housing | £1,986,400 | 52% | 1 |
Given each year
By the year of each grant, or of the charity's accounts that record it.
| Year | Given |
|---|---|
| 2025 | £1,323,456 |
| 2024 | £2,389,962 |
| 2023 | £71,000 |
How it gives
- Charities in Wales funded
- 4
- Charities funded in more than one year
- 2 of 4
Where
The council area of each funded charity's contact address. Many charities work well beyond the area where their address is.
- Powys2
- Bridgend1
- Pembrokeshire1
Size of the charities it funds
By each charity's income in its latest year.
- Over £5 million2
- £1 million to £5 million1
- £100,000 to £500,0001
What it says it does
From its entry on the register of charities.
The Representative Body's key objectives and activities are:1. To manage its investments;2. To manage the ecclesiastical and secular property vested in the Representative Body for the uses and purposes of the Church in Wales;3. To oversee the work of St Michael's College;4. To provide an efficient and professional administrative service across a wide range of administrative functions.
- Status
- Registered on 11 July 2011
- Income in its latest year
- £23,001,000, year ending 31 December 2025
- Publishes its grants to 360Giving
- No
- This funder on the Charity Commission register
- This funder is itself a Welsh charity. See its OpenCharity page.
The charities it funds
Newest first. For each charity, given comes from its accounts or from 360Giving, whichever shows more.
| Charity | Given | From | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Llandaff Diocesan Board of Finance | £1,986,400 | Charity's accounts | 2024, 2025 |
| The Dean and Chapter of Brecon Cathedral | £324,737 | Charity's accounts | 2025 |
| Swansea and Brecon Diocesan Board of Finance | £1,322,073 | Charity's accounts | 2024 |
| The Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral | £151,208 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024 |
Where these figures come from
- Given comes from two places. For each charity, we use whichever shows more: what the charity's own accounts say the funder gave it, or what the funder published to 360Giving. We never add the two, because they often record the same grant. Every figure counts money from 2021 to now and is an at-least figure: a funder appears only when a charity's accounts name it or it publishes its grants, and OpenEconomy has not yet read every charity's accounts.
- Charities' accounts: read from the accounts they filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader, up to 2 November 2026. AI can misread a table, so check a charity's accounts before relying on a figure.
- 360Giving: grants funders published to 360Giving, loaded by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026. Only some funders publish there.