Hijinx Theatre

Hijinx train 70 learning disabled adults in Wales to become professional actors. These actors perform in Hijinx theatre and film productions and also deliver communication role play training to public and private sector organsiations. Hijinx encourage inclusive casting in theatre and film. Hijinx also curate a participation programme and an international festival.

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 £1,485,163 and spent £1,550,703.

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.

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Income over time

Up 80%, from £823,786 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,485,163 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 104% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

25% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£378,469).

Largest funder

Arts Council of Wales gave £429,955 in the year to 31 March 2025, 29% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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: £199,899 from 5 grants. Government contracts: £178,570 from 10 contracts.

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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 11 funders who gave £684,406 between them. £585,951 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 24 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £985,205.

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Public bodies' published spending shows 4 payments to this charity worth £154,081 between 28 March 2024 and 20 January 2026.

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

• 22 October 2025

  Named by Rebecca Evans in the Senedd

  …lly. I'm also grateful to our constituent's mother for being so willing to engage with Transport for Wales, and also pay tribute, actually, to Hijinx Theatre, who have been fantastic also in terms of contacting Transport for Wales with offers of support. So, I know there's been a short-term resoluti…

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …miners' strike, Odyssey '84, with a first-class cast, was deeply moving and thought-provoking. A play can break your heart, and this one did. Hijinx Theatre's remarkable telling of how the movement of disabled people living in shared housing in Cardiff began was extraordinary. Neurodivergent and neu…

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• 15 May 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: MinFHE

  Purpose: Taith - Hijinx Theatre company (Youth/Adult Learning).

  Taith - Hijinx Theatre company (Youth/Adult Learning)

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew HealyAppointed 16 May 2024
• Dylan TozerOrganisationAppointed 19 September 2024
• Gabriella WildeAppointed 12 May 2025
• Guto Gwilym-TaylorAppointed 12 May 2025
• Jordan Pierce WoodleyAppointed 16 May 2024
• Megan WileyAppointed 12 May 2025
• Nicholas OlsenAppointed 12 May 2025
• Tom Robert CurteisAppointed 18 June 2020
• Victoria WaltersAppointed 24 August 2026
• Yvonne Omelebele OdukweOrganisationAppointed 19 September 2024

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.

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Charity number

1078358

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

25 November 1999

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 SEPTEMBER 1987 AS AMENDED BY A SPECIAL RESOLUTION OF 14 JUNE 1999 AND 9 NOVEMBER 1999

Company number

02161783This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.hijinx.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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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