Registered charity 1086596

Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust

What it does

Through its funding the Trust aims to improve the quality of life of people who live and work in Wales. In particular the Trust aims to promote education, history, language, culture, music and folklore, particularly for those who face discrimination or disadvantage. Grants are made to Sport, the Arts, Community and the Environment.

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

Its charitable purposes

3.1 WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY AND IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, TO ORGANISE OR PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION THEREOF IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY OR OTHER ORGANI0SATIONS OR OTHERWISE) FACILITIES FOR LEISURE-TIME OR RECREATIONAL OCCUPATION PROVIDED THAT THE FACILITIES WILL EITHER:(A) BE AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; OR(B) BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY, OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES3.2 TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY, THE EDUCATION OF THE COMMUNITY AND OTHERS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD IN THE INSTITUTIONS, PEOPLE, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, CULTURE, MUSIC AND FOLKLORE OF WALES AS WELL AS IN ITS INTELLECTUAL, ARTISTIC AND ECONOMIC LIFE3.3 TO ADVANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PERSONS OF SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY AGE (BY ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE SYSTEMATIC PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF SUCH YOUNG PERSONS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING THEIR CHARACTER, MINDS, MENTAL CO-ORDINATION, SELF-DISCIPLINE AND PHYSICAL FITNESS, SO THAT THEY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY) THROUGH THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION ( OR ASSISTANCE IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION ) OF FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENCOURAGE AND ENABLE SUCH YOUNG PERSONS TO PLAY GAMES OR SPORTS

From its governing document, as recorded on the register.

Causes

What it works on: General charitable purposes
Education and training
Disability
Arts, culture, heritage and science
Amateur sport
Environment, conservation and heritage
Economic and community development, and employment
Other charitable purposes
Who it helps: Children and young people
Older people
Disabled people
People of a particular ethnic or racial origin
Other charities and voluntary bodies
Other defined groups
The general public
How it works: Makes grants to organisations
Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities

The charity chose these from the Charity Commission's list.

Where it works

In Wales

Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: But in Practice - Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

Income and spending

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £590,711 and spent £533,878.

Income, spending, staff and volunteers by financial year
Year ending	Income	Spending	Paid staff	Volunteers
31 March 2025	£590,711	£533,878	0	Not reported
31 March 2024	£505,055	£688,526	0	Not reported
31 March 2023	£574,588	£399,692	0	Not reported
31 March 2022	£296,095	£82,488	Not reported	Not reported
31 March 2021	£910	£99,578	Not reported	Not reported

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.

Financial position

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 64,813%, from £910 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £590,711 in the year to 31 March 2025.
Spending against income: It spent 90% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.
Largest funder: Millennium Stadium plc gave £590,149 in the year to 31 March 2025, 100% 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 funding, as the charity reported it

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

Income from government grants and contracts by financial year
Year ending	Government grants	Government contracts
31 March 2025	Not reported	Not reported
31 March 2024	Not reported	Not reported
31 March 2023	Not reported	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.

Where its income came from in the year ending 31 March 2025

Charitable activities, including grants and contracts for its work£590,149
Investments£562

From the charity's annual return. Only charities with income over £500,000 give this breakdown.

Who funds it, according to its accounts

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £590,149. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Money received from each named funder, by accounts year
Funder	Type	Mar 2025	Mar 2024	Mar 2023
Millennium Stadium plc	Trust, company or other	£590,149	£503,177	£573,476

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving

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.

In council meetings

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

25 September 2025, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Declarations of Interest
Read the meeting record
25 September 2025, Cardiff
Russell Goodway declared an interest that names the charity, at Council
Notice of Motion – 2
Recorded as a personal interest.
Read the meeting record
25 September 2025, Cardiff
Peter Bradbury declared an interest that names the charity, at Council
Notice of Motion – 2
Recorded as a personal interest.
Read the meeting record
9 March 2023, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Declarations of Interest
Read the meeting record
9 March 2023, Cardiff
Bradbury declared an interest that names the charity, at Council
Cardiff Council's Corporate Plan 2023- 2026
Recorded as a personal interest.
Read the meeting record

We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

Trustees

12 trustees run the charity.

Russell GoodwayChair
Alison ThorneAppointed 1 December 2024
Andrew WalkerAppointed 7 January 2013
Colin WilkesAppointed 1 December 2024
Councillor Peter BradburyAppointed 26 June 2014
David HammondAppointed 22 November 2014
Emyr Wyn JonesAppointed 1 April 2023
Ian Davies
John Hardy RawlinsAppointed 7 January 2014
John Lloyd-jones
Jonathan DayAppointed 8 March 2016
Momena AliAppointed 19 March 2020

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Filing record

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

When each year's annual return and accounts were due and received
Year ending	Due	Annual return	Accounts
31 March 2025	31 January 2026	Received 21 January 2026, 10 days early	Received 21 January 2026
31 March 2024	31 January 2025	Received 15 January 2025, 16 days early	Received 15 January 2025
31 March 2023	31 January 2024	Received 31 January 2024	Received 31 January 2024
31 March 2022	31 January 2023	Received 16 December 2022, 46 days early	Received 5 January 2023
31 March 2021	31 January 2022	Received 20 January 2022, 11 days early	Not required

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.

About this charity

Charity number: 1086596
Status: Registered
Registered with the Commission: 15 May 2001
Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 8 FEBRUARY 2001 AS AMENDED 8 FEBRUARY 2002 AND 23 NOVEMBER 2009.
Website: www.millenniumstadiumtrust.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.
Council area of its contact address: Vale of Glamorgan

Sources

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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

Elsewhere in the Edau family

Year ending

Income

Spending

Paid staff

Volunteers

31 March 2025

£590,711

£533,878

Not reported

31 March 2024

£505,055

£688,526

Not reported

31 March 2023

£574,588

£399,692

Not reported

31 March 2022

£296,095

£82,488

Not reported

31 March 2021

£910

£99,578

Not reported

Year ending

Government grants

Government contracts

31 March 2025

Not reported

31 March 2024

Not reported

31 March 2023

Not reported

Funder

Type

Mar 2025

Mar 2024

Mar 2023

Millennium Stadium plc

Trust, company or other

£590,149

£503,177

£573,476

Year ending

Due

Annual return

Accounts

31 March 2025

31 January 2026

Received 21 January 2026, 10 days early

Received 21 January 2026

31 March 2024

31 January 2025

Received 15 January 2025, 16 days early

Received 15 January 2025

31 March 2023

31 January 2024

Received 31 January 2024

31 March 2022

31 January 2023

Received 16 December 2022, 46 days early

Received 5 January 2023

31 March 2021

31 January 2022

Received 20 January 2022, 11 days early

Not required