The Legat Foundation

We have an exhibition of Nicolai Legats caricatures & drawings which goes out on tour 'To advance the education of the public in the life and teachings of Nicholai Legat (1969-1937) and Johansson-Legat system of classical ballet. To train dancers and teachers in the foundation's system and graded examinations..To financially support students for further ballet education..

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

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

Elsewhere

• Warrington
• Ireland
• Slovenia
• Scotland

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £8,583 and spent £2,712.

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 554%, from £1,312 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £8,583 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 32% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent less than its income in each 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Moya Vahey-benyonChair
• Andrew StevensAppointed 21 February 2014
• Cheryl CorriganAppointed 1 October 2017
• Dr TAMARA DRAGADZE
• Elizabeth Libby BlindelAppointed 1 October 2017
• Ella Morgan
• Fiona Jayne Melvin
• Karolina Roaniszyn-tongmAppointed 2 October 2017
• Katannya AlvennAppointed 9 March 2016
• Kim HooperAppointed 1 October 2017
• Lesley TipplesAppointed 1 October 2017

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

1044856

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 March 1995

Governing document

TRUST DEED DATED 17TH FEB 1995

Website

legat-russian-ballet.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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