The Aloud Charity

The Charity is an umbrella organisation that devises, manages and delivers the activity of Only Boys Aloud, Only Girls Aloud, and Only Kids Aloud, and exists to promote and develop choral signing as a vibrant and essential element in the cultural landscape of Wales.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £482,473 and spent £373,189.

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 22%, from £396,603 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £482,473 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 77% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Arts Council Job Protection Fund gave £143,333 in the year to 31 August 2025, 30% 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 grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: £144,333 from 2 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 5 funders who gave £202,333 between them. £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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 15 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £507,900.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Brandon HamChairAppointed 15 December 2022
• Dr Ian James ReesAppointed 11 February 2021
• Elizabeth Sarah Ann Smith JonesAppointed 1 October 2025
• Julia BarryAppointed 3 January 2023
• Lisa TregaleAppointed 23 March 2023
• Rhian Angharad DaviesAppointed 1 October 2025
• Rosie Denise SweetmanAppointed 21 September 2023

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

1147922

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 July 2012

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17 JAN 2017 as amended on 12 Apr 2022

Company number

08116295This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.thealoudcharity.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
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