Mid Wales Opera Limited

Promoting mainstream professional opera throughout England and Wales with associated education, training and outreach activity.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £183,334 and spent £188,086.

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

Down 34%, from £277,630 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £183,334 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 103% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

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: £77,206 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2017, worth at least £14,500.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 2 payments to this charity worth £2,789 between 29 January 2024 and 23 December 2025.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

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

• 26 September 2024

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …of the health of classical music and opera specifically in Wales, given the cuts that, obviously, have been seen to Welsh National Opera and Mid Wales Opera, the ongoing pressures in St David's Hall, and what's happened with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and their programme for young p…

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• 26 September 2024

  Named by Laura Anne Jones in the Senedd

  I’m just wondering what assessment you've made of the health of classical music and opera in Wales, given the cuts, of course, to the Welsh National Opera and Mid Wales Opera, the current closure of St David’s Hall in Cardiff, and the closure of the Young RWCMD programme. Thank you.

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• 20 December 2023

  Named by Rhianon Passmore in the Senedd

  …big beasts, but I think in terms of how, for instance, some organisations are going to suffer, for instance, National Theatre Wales, and also Mid Wales Opera receive zero funding from the Arts Council of Wales, and there will definitely be job impacts, but that's a matter, obviously, for the Arts Co…

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• 6 December 2023

  Named by Tom Giffard in the Senedd

  After cutting funding to Mid Wales Opera and reducing funding for the Welsh National Opera, what is your vision for opera in Wales?

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• 21 November 2023

  Named by Lesley Griffiths in the Senedd

  …which operates in accordance with the arm's-length principle. You mentioned three particular organisations in your own area, and I'm aware of Mid Wales Opera and Hafren. I think it would be important, if they don't agree with the outcome, that they have the opportunity to engage with the appeals pro…

9 trustees run the charity.

• Gareth Stephen WilliamsChair
• Ann Perego RichardsAppointed 6 August 2026
• Avriel Kathleen ReaderAppointed 21 August 2019
• John Leslie StephensonAppointed 28 July 2011
• Mrs Sara Clutton
• Philippa Suzanne WardellAppointed 17 December 2018
• Professor Lynda May WarrenAppointed 25 October 2022
• Sara Gwenan MidhaAppointed 12 March 2025
• Sophie Catherine Lewis HughesAppointed 1 January 2025

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

1043391

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 January 1995

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13TH DECEMBER 1994

Company number

03001101This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.midwalesopera.co.ukAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• 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
• 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