Friends of Musicfest Aberystwyth

'Friends of Musicfest Aberystwyth' provide vital bursaries for young music students who might otherwise not have the means to attend the annual week-long festival and summer school, Musicfest Aberystwyth. Some 90 students come from across the UK, aged from 14-22. They receive expert tuition, have performance opportunities and hear top-rate international artists in concerts. All donations received

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Aberystwyth.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 September 2025, it had income of £5,533 and spent £7,707.

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

Down 82%, from £31,092 in the year to 30 September 2021 to £5,533 in the year to 30 September 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 139% of its income in the year to 30 September 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 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 30 September 2023: 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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Joan RowlandsChair
• Carol Elizabeth Nixon
• Frangcon LewisAppointed 12 November 2012
• Jane Susan LeggettAppointed 21 June 2023
• Katrina Williams

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

1118990

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 April 2007

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 2 APRIL 2007.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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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