Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

MUSIC THEATRE WALES

The principal activities of the company continue to be the education of the public in greater knowledge, interest and appreciation of new opera and music theatre including performances, public demonstrations, educational workshops and creative projects with other arts organisations.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£330£252£78n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£303£339£-35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£247£178£70n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£350£288£63n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£652£819£-167£6£177£981.450
31/03/18£794£667£126£1£319£2945.320
31/03/17£585£555£30£1£193£1503.220
31/03/16*£472£403£69n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£575£645£-70£2£94£761.420
31/03/14£690£619£71£2£164£480.920
31/03/13£469£511£-42n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£583£481£101£1£135£731.820
31/03/11£389£393£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/10£353£536£-184n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/09£557£543£13£171£221£1493.320
31/03/08£481£520£-39n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/07*£425£336£89n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/06£371£341£30n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£422£371£51n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£512£551£-38n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Balance Sheet History
Established: 30 years

www.musictheatre.wales

kathryn@musictheatre.wales

02920353741

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 11/01/2023
Re-imagining Opera
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 28/04/2021
towards the Future Directions pilot programme for young people and professional composers and music makers

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 30-41
  • ANNA POOL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Writer
  • DYLAN PUW REES Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Auditor
  • KERRY SKIDMORE (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Creative Arts Educator And Facilitator
  • KIERAN JONES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Administrator
  • LOUIS JOHN CHARLES GRAY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • MEHDI RAZI Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Producer
  • PHILLIPPA SCAMMELL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Artistic Administrator
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/07/1994, number: 1039757
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/05/1993, number: 02815692
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 0 days late, AR07: 16 days late,
Main office

Music Theatre Wales
Chapter Arts Cardiff Ltd
Market Road
CARDIFF
CF5 1QE

Objectives

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN GREATER KNOWLEDGE, INTEREST AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA, MUSIC, THEATRE, DRAMA AND DANCE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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