South Wales Miners Welfare Trust Fund Scheme

Analysis

South Wales Miners Welfare Trust Fund Scheme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Maesycoed. It was registered in April 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, the prevention or relief of poverty, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, South Wales Miners Welfare Trust Fund Scheme reported income of £743k and spending of £1.1m, spending 146% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £453k to £743k (+64%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 147% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, South Wales Miners Welfare Trust Fund Scheme sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include UK Men's Sheds Association (£742k), Himmah (£743k) and Facing the World (£742k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 81% and investments 18%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 2.9%. Reserves of £1.5m would cover about 17 months of spending at that rate. It employed 18 people.

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.