Wales Millennium Centre

WMC aims to create a special place which will provide a focal point for the unique culture, identity and talents of Wales though the creation of a world class showcase for musicals, opera, dance, exhibitions, entertainment and education in a millennium landmark, with long lasting benefits for the whole community.

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 2025, it had income of £28,148,648 and spent £27,754,948.

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 176%, from £10,180,576 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £28,148,648 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 99% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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: £4,377,261 from 5 grants. 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 9 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £380,100.

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 16 payments to this charity worth £1,640,144 between 18 January 2021 and 27 May 2026.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 19 March 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Core Office

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• 16 March 2026, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee

  Core Office

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• 25 September 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

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• 14 March 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Glamorgan Archives Joint Committee

  Report of the Glamorgan Archivist for the period 1st December 2024 to 28th February 2025

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• 4 December 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee

  Mid Year Assessment of Performance 2024/25

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• 22 October 2024, Cardiff

  Named in a decision of Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee

  Core Office Strategy

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• 25 November 2021, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Lord Mayor's Announcements

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• 19 October 2026

  Named by Rhodri Llwyd Morgan in the Senedd

  …rmarthen. I'm going tomorrow to see the Gwent Archives in Ebbw Vale. Glamorgan Archives have a clip corner. There is a clip corner in the Wales Millennium Centre, nearly next door here. We're in Wrexham, we're in Anglesey, we're in Caernarfon and we're in Conwy. So, the footprint—it's not a carbon f…

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• 16 June 2026

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …les. As an example of Wales leading on the world stage, I was thrilled to take part on Sunday evening in the inaugural Annwn prize at the Wales Millennium Centre. I was inspired by the quality of immersive storytelling by artists from across the world, and huge congratulations to the winners, Colore…

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• 14 June 2026

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: TCWCMCS

  Purpose: Gwobr Annwn / Annwn Prize & Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru / Wales Millennium Centre.

  Gwobr Annwn / Annwn Prize & Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru / Wales Millennium Centre

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• 19 May 2026

  Named by Huw Thomas in the Senedd

  …top of the Garth mountain, from the steelworks in Tremorfa to the office blocks in the city centre, and from Cardiff City Stadium to the Wales Millennium Centre, this constituency, I believe, represents the best of the natural beauty, culture and industry of Wales. Llongyfarchiadau a phob dymuniad…

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• 4 March 2026

  Named by Jack Sargeant in the Senedd

  …vestment programme administered by the Arts Council of Wales. Forty-six organisations received support this financial year, including the Wales Millennium Centre, Oriel Myrddin in Carmarthenshire, the Grand Pavilion in Porthcawl, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham. These projects will im…

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• 11 November 2025

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  The work that's been done by Cardiff Council to date is very welcome. The Senedd, the Wales Millennium Centre and Cardiff and Vale College are all benefiting from the roll-out of this mini heat network, and similar small-scale schemes have been developed by Newport and Ceredigion councils. But unles…

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• 8 October 2025

  Named by Rhodri Llwyd Morgan in the Senedd

  …iverse range of communities, using the different kinds of collections that we have. An example that we saw last week was working with the Wales Millennium Centre and the clip corner that we have at the millennium centre. It's established a relationship with West Monmouth School in Pontypool, where a…

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Heledd Fychan in the Senedd

  …because they’ve lost funding, that they can’t sustain any longer. So, we think of opera as something just happening in theatres like the Wales Millennium Centre, but it’s those kinds of projects that, unfortunately, come to an end, and that’s what I mean about sustainable funding. In terms of Theat…

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Hannah Blythyn in the Senedd

  …eatest hits of opera'. So, I recognised things off adverts and things like that, so then that got me to the next stage and we went to the Wales Millennium Centre, and, eventually, when we went on our honeymoon, I actually had the privilege of going to the New York Met to see opera there, which was i…

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  …ery powerful thing—with just three actors. It was amazingly well done. But we also have other things. I can remember, for example, at the Wales Millennium Centre back in December 2018, seeing a fantastic and such a powerful play called Behind the Label, which is about homelessness, which was deliver…

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …world, how we think about our place in the world. I haven't seen many plays in recent years. I've made numerous visits to our outstanding Wales Millennium Centre to see musicals, and we're fortunate to have such a venue of international standing in our capital, and an artistic team that curates such…

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• 14 May 2025

  Named by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson in the Senedd

  …ture, Media and Sport and the Foreign Office. For the second meeting—very happy—they came to Wales; they came to the Principality and the Wales Millennium Centre because they felt that was important. I think, probably a little bit of frustration I feel is having to keep reminding Westminster that de…

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• 1 April 2025

  Named by Jenny Rathbone in the Senedd

  …events that occur either at the Millennium stadium or at the Motorpoint arena, where there are large concerts, or indeed down here at the Wales Millennium Centre. There is no additional money coming to the police service in south Wales because of Cardiff being a capital city where we have regular la…

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• 23 January 2025

  Named by James Price in the Senedd

  …ee, hopefully after I've had a chance to have a sandwich, we are meeting with GBR representatives and Network Rail representatives in the Wales Millennium Centre, just across the way, to discuss just that. And we met for two hours last week to discuss the same thing. What my personal and professiona…

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• 23 October 2024

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …ust want to draw attention to the fact that we have Neil here, a young person from Newport, and he's here with his mother. He went to the Wales Millennium Centre. It's a huge concern; the turnover must be in the millions. He wasn't able to buy himself an ice cream during the interval, because he did…

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• 26 June 2024

  Named by Carolyn Thomas in the Senedd

  …you've got plans to improve signage. And also, if people don't know the area at all, they can look at the three wonderful buildings, the Wales Millennium Centre, the Pierhead, and the Senedd itself, and if they don't have that background knowledge, they say, 'Which building is it?'—if you're talkin…

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• 22 May 2024

  Named by Wendy Dearden in the Senedd

  I went to see Nye at the Wales Millennium Centre last night, so you're very much keying in on some of Aneurin Bevan's words around housing for all and the doctor living next door to the butcher. The situation we have at the moment is we just don't have enough of it; it's a limited resource, so it's…

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• 19 March 2024

  Named by Mark Drakeford in the Senedd

  …fort into making sure that we continue to invest in those relationships we have with so many old friends. A number of us here were in the Wales Millennium Centre last week celebrating St Patrick's Day, and Ireland is our closest and our oldest neighbour and we have excellent relationships with the w…

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• 28 February 2024

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …n spoke about the importance of the fact that we locate ourselves in the world. He spoke about transparency and glass. As the poem on the Wales Millennium Centre reminds us, creating truth like glass is the challenge for us. Rhun mentioned Ireland—which is close to our hearts as a committee—and the…

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• 15 February 2024

  Named in a written question from Andrew RT Davies

  Addressed to the Minister for Social Justice and Chief Whip.

  …taking to advance gender equality on the 12 March. Welsh Government is hosting a seminar to celebrate Women in Exports on 8 March in the Wales Millennium Centre. The Welsh Government’s women's network, Women Together, will run an International Women’s Day event open to all staff. This year’s event…

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• 22 November 2023

  Named by Alun Davies in the Senedd

  …ped the Wales that we see today. But David Rowe-Beddoe is certainly one of them. He is synonymous, perhaps, with the early history of the Wales Millennium Centre, and served with distinction as chair from March 2001 through to May 2010. He was also the president of the Royal Welsh College of Music a…

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• 22 November 2023

  Named by Tom Giffard in the Senedd

  …the arts in the Welsh Government. Indeed, in a rare intervention this week on the Politics Wales programme, the artistic director for the Wales Millennium Centre, Graeme Farrow, said that the arts sector in Wales was 'in a crisis', but, on the same show, they said that the Deputy Minister was unavai…

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• 30 November 2022

  Named by Richard Pring in the Senedd

  …ing that we would love to see coming back again is that there used to be a Welsh games development show many, many years ago, down at the Wales Millennium Centre. We had many, many people from all over. It was absolutely full—everything from Storm Troopers down to Tibetan monks. It was such a good d…

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• 30 November 2022

  Named by Siân Gale in the Senedd

  …rk very closely with Welsh Government on apprenticeships in the screen sector, working, in some ways, in terms of how Cyfle used to work. Wales Millennium Centre, as well, have had an apprentice scheme in the past where they've had shared apprentices, so, what's happened is they've worked with furth…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …other end and the longer term. National Youth Arts Wales runs a project called Professional Pathways in partnership with Theatr Clwyd and Wales Millennium Centre and that's about offstage skills. We are getting young people from very diverse backgrounds, but all of them have a familiarity with theat…

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Peter SwinburnChairAppointed 18 November 2015
• Amit KachawahaAppointed 13 January 2020
• Geraint Allan JonesAppointed 13 December 2023
• Joanna ReesAppointed 24 September 2018
• Julie-Ann HainesAppointed 5 April 2022
• Nan WilliamsAppointed 19 July 2023
• Nicky GoulderAppointed 18 December 2018
• Rhodri William Talfan DaviesAppointed 9 March 2022
• Vivian MurindeAppointed 21 September 2023

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

1060458

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

30 January 1997

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 9 JULY 1996 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 20 DECEMBER 1996, 25 NOVEMBER 1998, 10 JUNE 2002, 28 MAY 2004, 13 NOVEMBER 2009 AND 14 MAY 2010.

Company number

03221924This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

wmc.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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 council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

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