Welsh Music Guild / Cymdeithas Cerddoriaeth Cymru

The Guild is established for the purpose of advancing the education of the public by encouraging the understanding and appreciation of the music of composers of Welsh origin and of any nationality resident in Wales. The Guild will also encourage a high level of performance practice and foster awareness and observation of professional issues within Wales.

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

In Wales

• Throughout 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 December 2025, it had income of £6,647 and spent £7,548.

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 208%, from £2,157 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £6,647 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 114% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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.

20 trustees run the charity.

• Canon Graham William Arthur HolcombeAppointed 23 July 2022
• Daniel Lee LewisAppointed 9 September 2023
• Dr ASHLEY JOHN LONG BMusAppointed 29 March 2016
• Dr Jordan Richard Hirst MMus PhDAppointed 12 October 2019
• Dr NATHAN JAMES DEARDEN MMus PhDAppointed 29 March 2016
• Dr Rhiannon MathiasAppointed 9 September 2023
• Emyr Afan Davies OBE BAAppointed 21 August 2025
• Ethan John Davies Bmus MmusAppointed 3 October 2018
• Jeremy Huw Williams BEM PhDAppointed 24 July 2013
• John Meirion Rea MMusAppointed 15 December 2018
• Kieran JonesAppointed 9 September 2023
• Lisa Tregale FRWCMDAppointed 21 August 2025

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

1081291

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 June 2000

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 14 APRIL 2000 AS AMENDED 13 APRIL 2002 AND 12 APRIL 2003.

Website

welshmusic.tp-web.co.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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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