Friends of the National Orchestra of Wales

Supporting the Education & Community Dept of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Developing emerging talent, taking music to areas of Wales where, through economic or geographical reasons, it may have limited facilities. Offering the first chance to hear/participate with orchestral musicians.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £21,917 and spent £30,932.

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 2,191,600%, from £1 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £21,917 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 141% of its income in the year to 31 August 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 August 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.

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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Deborah Helen KeyserChairAppointed 1 February 2022
• Gareth ChurchillAppointed 1 February 2020
• Iwan Teifion DaviesAppointed 30 September 2024
• John HardyAppointed 1 February 2022
• Osian Gwynn DuttonAppointed 1 February 2022
• Siobhan Elizabeth CloughAppointed 12 February 2026

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

1062645

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 June 1997

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 14 SEPTEMBER 1996

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

• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
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