The Welsh Chamber Orchestra Limited

The core aims of the Welsh Chamber Orchestra are to promote the enjoyment, by the public, of chamber orchestral music in Wales and elsewhere by performances of the highest professional standards, and to promote the enjoyment and development of chamber orchestral music in schools through workshops and schools concerts.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice National.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £99,024 and spent £118,671.

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 38%, from £71,858 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £99,024 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 120% 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: 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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards KCVO,LLBChair
• Anthony Paul Hose Arcm
• Canon Graham William Arthur HolcombeAppointed 30 August 2022
• Dr Jeremy Huw Williams BEM PhdAppointed 25 June 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

1083071

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 October 2000

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 FEBRUARY 1987 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 30 SEPTEMBER 1987.

Company number

02098243This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.welshchamberorchestra.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Bridgend's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg