Arts Connection - Cyswllt Celf

To promote, maintain, improve and advance education and participation in the arts including, without limitation, the visual, performing and digital arts and the provision of recreational and leisure time activities with the view to improving the quality of life in local communities in Mid and North Wales and the Borders area.

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

In Wales

• Powys
• Wrexham

Area of benefit in its governing document: Mid and North Wales and the Borders Area.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £153,093 and spent £166,281.

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 34%, from £114,334 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £153,093 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

15% of its income in the year to 31 March 2022 came from government grants and contracts (£18,640).

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: £113,028 from 11 grants. 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 12 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £96,610.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Angela ContestabileChairAppointed 29 July 2021
• Bryony Jo Wesson-JonesAppointed 26 November 2025
• John Paul HextallAppointed 7 December 2020
• Mark HardingAppointed 5 December 2019
• Martin DuckersAppointed 7 June 2019
• Matthew James GulliverAppointed 20 November 2024
• Megan Fflur HowellAppointed 1 June 2026
• Miranda GlenAppointed 3 February 2021

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

1135641

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

26 April 2010

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 MARCH 1994 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE 7 APRIL 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 NOV 2016 as amended on 07 Dec 2020 as amended on 26 Nov 2025

Company number

02911716This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

artsconnection.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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.

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

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