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Trefeca College

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 258456CardiffReligion
Income£10k2025-12-31
Spending£592ksame year
Spent / received156%5-year average
Size in its cause23rd pctReligion
Registered1969Trust
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Trefeca College is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cardiff. It was registered in April 1969, 57 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Trefeca College reported income of £10k and spending of £592k, spending 5857% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £107k to £10k (-91%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 354%. Over the whole period it spent 156% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Trefeca College sits at the 23rd percentile: it is larger than about 23% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 31st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Encounter with God Ministries London (£10k), Penzance-Madron Scout Group (£10k) and Bethany Memorial Independent Methodist Church (£10k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£148k£296k£444k£592k2021 Income: £106,7342021 Spending: £157,34320212022 Income: £484,8282022 Spending: £106,73420222023 Income: £198,2122023 Spending: £268,60420232024 Income: £29,0082024 Spending: £169,32220242025 Income: £10,1022025 Spending: £591,6242025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Coleg Trefeca is the lay training centre of the Presbyterian Church of Wales and provides training for preachers and worship leaders, elders and connexional lay staff.

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