Rising Stars Theatre Company

We are a theatre group run for children, young people and adults with physical and learning disabilities, based in Swansea. We work with young people from Swansea and surrounding communities.

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

In Wales

• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £29,994 and spent £33,979.

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 191%, from £10,310 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £29,994 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Oakdale Trust gave £2,000 in the year to 31 August 2025, 7% 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: £2,000 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 6 funders who gave £3,319 between them. £406 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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £11,260, awarded in 2026.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Nicola JonesChairAppointed 21 November 2024
• Amanda Jayne RichardsAppointed 7 September 2018
• Charlotte WilliamsAppointed 21 November 2024
• Georgina DaviesAppointed 21 November 2025
• Lindsay SleemanAppointed 20 November 2025
• Lucy Jayne Craggs MsAppointed 20 November 2025
• Sally-Anne PowellAppointed 20 November 2025
• Sasha Louvain PhillipsAppointed 25 January 2024
• Victoria BownAppointed 20 November 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, 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

1150783

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 February 2013

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 06 SEP 2007AS AMENDED ON 03/11/2012

Website

risingstarsswansea.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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

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