Oriel Davies Gallery

Oriel Davies Gallery is dedicated to providing the local community and wider audiences with access to the best modern and contemporary visual art from Wales and the wider world. Through our exhibitions and education programmes, projects and activities, we are committed to encouraging enjoyment, understanding, learning and participation in the visual arts.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Powys

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,232,776 and spent £447,425.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 203%, from £407,285 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,232,776 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 36% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

71% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£876,430).

Largest funder

National Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales capital grant gave £874,430 in the year to 31 March 2025, 71% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £2,000 from 1 grant. Government contracts: £874,430 from 1 contract.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 8 funders who gave £1,146,475 between them. £232,441 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £60,500.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 5 July 2023

  Named by Dafydd Rhys in the Senedd

  …roject. Those are: Storiel in Bangor; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Glyn Vivian in Swansea; Mostyn in Llandudno; Newport Museum and Art Gallery; Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown; Oriel Myrddin Gallery in Carmarthen; Plas Glyn y Weddw in Pen Llŷn; as well as Ruthin Craft Centre. The criteria, maybe, are of…

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Bethan Ruth BurnsideAppointed 15 September 2026
• Damon WebbAppointed 24 September 2024
• Jamie Christopher BurtAppointed 24 June 2025
• Michael Hugh BrownAppointed 30 April 2014
• Sean Adrian VicaryAppointed 8 July 2015
• Simon Patrick CottonAppointed 14 November 2018
• Susan RobertsonAppointed 18 November 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1034890

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

14 March 1994

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 DECEMBER 1993 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME OF 6 JULY 1998 AND 11TH SEPTEMBER 2002, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 18 JUNE 2008. as amended on 27 Feb 2024

Company number

02881599This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.orieldavies.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Powys Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Powys's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn