The Vera Smart Trust

The promotion,improvement,development and maintenance of public education in and appreciation of the art and science of music in all its aspects.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: County and City of Swansea and the Local Authority Areas Immediately Adjoining It.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £4,000.

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.

Spending against income

It spent 800% of its income in the year to 5 April 2024.

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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Elizabeth Stewart Fussell
• Mr Jeremy Sims
• Susan Edith KingAppointed 26 April 2018

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.

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

1086506

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 May 2001

Governing document

TRUST DEED DATED 13 MARCH 2001

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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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