The Cory Band

- The development of Brass Band music as an art form through dedicated rehearsals of all genres of music and performances in concerts, competitions and recordings.- The band is dedicated to supporting the existence of the Brass Bands in Wales through youth development via Cory Academy.- Player Development- Commissioning of new music for the Brass Band repertoire

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Ireland
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

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 £142,734 and spent £185,243.

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 8%, from £154,646 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £142,734 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 130% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

3% of its income in the year to 31 December 2022 came from government grants and contracts (£7,000).

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 December 2025: Not reported. 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £7,500, awarded in 2019.

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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• John SouthcombeChair
• Neil BlockleyAppointed 7 December 2015
• Robert Austin Davies

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, 4 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

1052126

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 January 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 28 SEPTEMBER 1995

Website

www.coryband.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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.

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

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