Wales Quality Centre

Analysis

Wales Quality Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bridgend. It was registered in April 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02239398). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Wales Quality Centre reported income of £228k and spending of £296k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £312k to £228k (-27%), an average of -7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Wales Quality Centre sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rugby for Heroes (£227k), Brambles Community Pre-School (£228k) and Blundellsands Kindergarten Playgroup (£227k).

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.