Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board General Purpose Charity

Analysis

Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board General Purpose Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in July 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services, sponsors or undertakes research and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board General Purpose Charity reported income of £1.9m and spending of £2.3m, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.2m to £1.9m (-16%), an average of -4.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board General Purpose Charity sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hospital Rooms (£1.9m), Islington Mind (£1.9m) and Carers Leeds (£1.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 44%, charitable activities 33%, trading 16% and investments 7.1%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £505k. Charitable activities took 84% of spending and raising funds 15%. Grants to other organisations totalled £20k. Reserves of £2.6m would cover about 13 months of spending at that rate.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.