The Friends of Bridgend Youth Music

We run a weekly tuck shop for the children attending orchestra rehearsals. We raise funds at orchestra concerts via ticket sales/raffles. We accept donations and sometimes apply for relevant grants.

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £0.

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 733%, from £100 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £833 in the year to 31 August 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 179% of its income in the year to 31 August 2024. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 2 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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Richard Thomas McDonaldChairAppointed 20 June 2025
• Joanne Louise BevanAppointed 20 June 2025
• Lucy Eliza RathkeyAppointed 20 June 2025

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

1116157

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 September 2006

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 31 MARCH 2006

Website

www.friendsofbym.comAs 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

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