Welsh Church Act Fund Within the Areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils

Analysis

Welsh Church Act Fund Within the Areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Mid Glamorgan. It was registered in October 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and religious activities, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Welsh Church Act Fund Within the Areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils reported income of £412k and spending of £576k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £408k to £412k (+0.9%), an average of +0.2% a year. Over the whole period it spent 121% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Welsh Church Act Fund Within the Areas of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Councils sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Elbow & Shoulder Society (£411k), British Medical Acupuncture Society (£412k) and Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi (School of Islamic Sufism) (£411k).

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.