Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 14
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Pension deficit: -3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +14

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 

The University advances learning and knowledge by teaching and research, and engages in activities to promote and contribute to cultural, social and economic development within Wales and beyond.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • There are 18 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • There is a pension deficit of £170,864,000
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 13 years

www.swansea.ac.uk

l.a.woollard@swansea.ac.uk

01792 205678

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/22£340,086£447,629£-107,543£62£163,917£156,5584.23,546131
31/07/21£360,665£332,920£27,745£0£219,798£212,2937.73,627154
31/07/20£317,501£285,089£32,412£0£179,297£172,3167.33,643134
31/07/19£352,300£395,000£-42,700£0£158,400£151,6004.63,6520
31/07/18*£308,217£297,137£11,080£0£215,090£208,6548.43,4050
31/07/17£278,024£259,439£18,585£0£206,913£200,7749.33,0450
31/07/16£295,835£244,419£51,416£0£169,621£163,79582,7980
31/07/15£228,671£209,410£19,261£36£156,952£40,7862.32,7250
31/07/14£205,205£197,983£7,222£33£114,012£22,1461.32,6270
31/07/13*£181,755£178,104£3,651£30£79,666£11,7300.82,5020
31/07/12£178,305£172,891£5,414£29£82,398£19,1151.32,4070
31/07/11£172,532£164,650£7,882£28£76,604£15,5001.12,3380

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 9%
Highest pay band: £300,000-£350,000
Liabilities/Assets: 53%
Liabilities/Income: 111%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 96%
Reserves/Spending: 4.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 1
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Education/Training
Who works here?
  • 3,546 employees
  • 131 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • City Of Swansea,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£34,403,233
Wolfson Foundation£500,000
The Legal Education Foundation£205,510
Esmee Fairbairn£135,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Swansea University
£500,000 08/06/2023
Equipment for Advanced Semiconductor Wafer Analytical Capability (ASemi-WAC)
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Swansea University
£50,000 04/04/2023
South Wales Miners’ Library: Feasibility Study
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Swansea University (Children's Legal Centre, Wales)
£10,000 27/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2022
£104,000 15/06/2022
A grant to the Children's Legal Centre Wales at the University of Swansea to fund one Justice First Fellowship as part of cohort 9. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children's Legal Centre (Wales)
£100,000 19/01/2022
24
Towards core costs to develop children’s legal information and empowerment services in Wales, and helping the centre develop a partnership approach to strategic litigation to improve the law for ....more
Road Safety Trust - Grant to Swansea University
£46,437 10/06/2021
16
Digitising the Self-Administered Interview for Road Traffic Collisions (SAI-RTC): A pilot test of usability and efficacy
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Swansea University
£0 10/06/2021
Visiting Fellowship Award of *** over 1 year made to one fellow, College of Engineering, under the Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship Awards. WF contributing *** (50% of total costs)
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children's Legal Centre (Wales)
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
The Legal Education Foundation - JFF Host 2020
£101,510 13/03/2020
A grant to Children's Legal Centre Wales to fund one Just First Fellowship as part of cohort 7. Co-funded by BBC Children in Need.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Newton Fund – China-UK Research and Innovation Bridges Competition 2015 Project Title: Graphene biosensor for point of care hepatitis diagnostics - Amendment 3 Extension for Impact
£19,165 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=106228
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Swansea University and SPTS Technologies Ltd
£115,125 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=511865
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - EEN ENIW SGA4
£165,541 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=640065
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Prosperity Partnership Call 2 Strategic Students-Tata Steel and Swansea University
£284,976 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S516089/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Advancing 3D Fuel Mapping for Wildfire Behaviour and Risk Mitigation Modelling
£527,202 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/T001194/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PARSER: Parking and AiR pollution SEnsoRs for Smart Cities
£255,653 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105040
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - GaNTT - Gallium Nitride Trench-FET Development for Automotive Power Applications
£172,294 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105399
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - 100kVA/litre power density motor controller
£39,844 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=105388
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Deterministic encapsulation of particles and cells through viscoelastic ordering in microfluidic devices
£262,835 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S036490/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Power to the People: Democratising energy through decentralised manufacture and production of affordable, reliable, sustainable solar power
£808,236 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T01556X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Citizen and Community Science with Oriel Science
£19,134 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/T019182/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Compulsive Worlds: Improving Therapeutic Practice for Tourette Syndrome and Working with Care in Dementia
£97,482 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/T009268/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Frequency metrology for precision measurements on matter-antimatter symmetry
£1,479,104 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T019239/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Novel polymers of intrinsic microporosity for heterogeneous base-catalysed reactions (HBC-PIMs)
£280,530 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T007362/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Functional Industrial Coatings
£4,573,487 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S02252X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Swansea University - Capital Award for Core Equipment
£125,000 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T024348/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Application of machine learning to discover new multimorbidity phenotypes associated with poorer outcomes
£563,132 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/S027750/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Bringing Healthcare Data to Life
£357,722 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S010238/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Industrial CASE Account - Swansea University 2019
£343,600 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T517537/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Mass Spectrometry Based Lipidomics and Metabolomics to Drive Bioscience Discovery
£748,381 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S019588/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Stardust Hunters
£9,988 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/T001593/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Low-cost printed flexible solar cells as substitute for current (1st and 2nd generation) photovoltaics for building integrated applications in India
£125,981 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S01344X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Frictional flow patterns shaped by viscous and capillary forces (FriicFlow)
£658,382 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S034587/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Novel Manufacturing for Resource Efficient Electrochemical Storage (NoRESt)
£1,091,410 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S03711X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Growth and Remodelling in the Porcine Heart-- Pushing Mathematics through Experiments
£40,185 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S014306/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - STFC Swansea 2019 DTP
£147,598 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/T506473/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Computing
£5,426,912 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S023992/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Swansea University – Confidence in Concept 2019
£149,400 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MC_PC_19053
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - SUSTAIN Manufacturing Hub
£10,319,155 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S018107/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems
£4,986,846 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S021892/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Social Worlds of Steel. Re-thinking Industrial History and Heritage
£182,266 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=AH/S00310X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - NPIF EPSRC CDT 2018 equipment funding Swansea University
£26,667 01/04/2019
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/V518438/1
Nesta - AX00005
£20,000 28/03/2019
11
Centre for Collective Intelligence Design programme grant to Swansea University Grant Ref AX00005
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Children's Legal Centre (Wales)
£150,000 05/12/2018
36
Towards the development of the Children’s Legal Centre Wales, providing reliable accessible information, advice and representation for children and young people in Wales.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UK Climate During The Common Era
£508,254 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Proud Pads : Hassle Free Sustainable Sanitary Pads
£4,832 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104339
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Leah Bertram
£6,296 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104348
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - pallula fashion & accessories
£6,295 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104355
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Trade Finance Fraud Detection Project in Dual Use Goods with Machine Learning and Visual Analytics
£137,996 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=104413
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - FAST
£119,253 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=113161
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Modular Unitary Drives for High Power Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
£459,387 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=113187
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Moisture Barrier Coatings for PVOH Soluble Products to Reduce Packaging and Extend Product Life
£29,989 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133641
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Novel Graphite Flake production for Li-Ion Battery Manufacture from Steelmaking By-Product
£33,585 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133645
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - HALLO - High and Low Light Opv
£87,512 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133701
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - EEN ENIW SGA3
£87,691 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=640034
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Optimising symbiont-mediated RNA interference as a control measure for Western Flower Thrips and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
£356,937 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R006148/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Host-pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)
£378,257 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R019142/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Interfaces, Stability and Energy Efficiency: Photochemical Characterisation of Perovskites for Printable Photovoltaics
£100,608 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R016666/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Defect-engineered metal-organic frameworks for carbon dioxide capture
£97,042 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R01910X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Antiparticle beamline for experiments on matter antimatter symmetry
£486,613 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R025320/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - PV-Interfaces: Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions via Photovoltaic Surfaces
£738,112 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R032750/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Optical Transfer of Heat with Electrical and Light Output (OTHELLO)
£145,546 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R035997/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - DTP 2018-19 Swansea University
£1,286,028 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/R51312X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - ACceleration of Circular Economy for Printable Photovoltaics Through Eco-Design (ACCEPTED)
£547,407 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S001336/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Transfer Learning for Robust, Resilient and Transferable Cyber Manufacturing Systems
£477,185 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S001387/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Human Centred Robotics for Next-generation Flexible Manufacturing
£544,518 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S001913/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Prosperity Partnership in Rapid Product Development
£2,431,506 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S005218/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - The next level of SAT solving for very hard problems
£839,938 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S015523/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - The Active Building Centre
£35,947,427 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S016627/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Swansea University Capital Equipment for ECRs
£100,000 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S017925/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Industrial CASE Account - Swansea University 2018
£509,094 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S513714/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Swansea University Innov Placements
£30,183 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S515206/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Swansea University NPIF 2018
£200,000 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S515218/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - The future of human rights investigations: Using open source intelligence to transform the documentation and discovery of human rights violations
£198,186 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/R00899X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Administrative Data Research Centres 2018
£4,879,390 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/S007393/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Reframing Global Environmental Change: fostering interdisciplinary approaches to socioecological transformation through insights from Wales.
£98,571 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ES/S011358/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Preventing Hospital Re-admissions for People with Severe Mental Illness in East Africa (PRISM)
£126,601 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/R019355/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - GHOST (Geophysical Habitats of Subglacial Thwaites)
£273,520 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NE/S006621/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - VirtualSpace
£11,576 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/S001638/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - STFC Swansea 2018 DTP
£145,423 01/04/2018
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=ST/S505778/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - SURFTEC: SUrvivability and Reliability of Floating Tidal Energy Converters
£508,199 01/04/2018
To support high quality research
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Swansea University
£49,100 25/01/2018
Twenty-First Century reverberations; restoring unique industrial heritage in the Swansea Valley
National Lottery Community Fund - Swansea Edible Community Garden
£9,850 28/11/2017
12
Swansea Edible Community Garden
Road Safety Trust - Grant to Swansea University
£77,844 26/10/2017
42
Capturing best information from witnesses to serious road traffic collisions
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Surface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
£137,381 01/06/2017
To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Surface Engineering Solid State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
£172,542 01/06/2017
To support high quality research
National Lottery Community Fund - Little Voices Being Heard
£246,654 24/05/2017
36
The project will promote co-production and provide children and adults in Wales with the skills, knowledge and experience to be able work together to make positive changes to their community. They ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Swansea University College of Science
£34,300 28/07/2016
Burton @ 14: Change for Burton, Port Talbot and Us
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Swansea University
£58,200 29/03/2016
The Legacy of Longfields Association: Celebrating the history and impact of a pioneering disability charity
National Lottery Community Fund - Little Voices, Shouting Out
£229,135 05/12/2014
36
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Interactive Health: Student Sex Workers
£509,082 13/12/2011
48
The grant will be used to promote learning and understanding about student sex worker needs and associated issues, and to provide them with an innovative sexual health service. The project will ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (18)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 16/18 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/10/2010, number: 1138342
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR18: 115 days late, AR13: 268 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE LIMITED on 15/12/2021
Main office

SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
SINGLETON PARK
SWANSEA
SA2 8PP

Objectives

ARTICLE 3 OF THE UNIVERSITY'S 2007 SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER STATES THAT THE OBJECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE BY TEACHING AND RESEARCH, AND TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE AND CONTRIBUTE TO CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN WALES AND BEYOND.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WALES

Data Sources

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In this Blog we outline a strategy to help people who are new to philanthropy and for those who feel dissatisfied with the impact they are having. Effective philanthropy is immensely rewarding for donors,....more

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