Congress Theatre Company

The Congress Theatre objectives are:to provide, maintain, improve and advance education of the public in the arts and sciences; in particular the art and science of Theatre by presentation of public performances and other similar activities

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

In Wales

• Torfaen

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, Local

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £282,411 and spent £297,218.

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 41%, from £200,048 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £282,411 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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: £41,000 from 1 grant. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £14,500, awarded in 2025.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 8 payments to this charity worth £252,867 between 9 September 2022 and 2 June 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

9 trustees run the charity.

• James KeechChairAppointed 20 September 2013
• Andrew PippenAppointed 1 June 2014
• Bernard John Cunningham
• Councillor Stewart Matthews
• Elizabeth BrimbleAppointed 1 January 2024
• Kirsten TuckAppointed 1 January 2019
• Lynne CoxAppointed 1 June 2024
• Malcolm JonesAppointed 1 January 2017
• Stephen John Brooks

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, 3 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

1132687

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 November 2009

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 APRIL 2009

Company number

06870731This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen