Ty Cerdd - Music Centre Wales

Ty Cerdd's remit is: to bring the music of Wales to audiences across our nation, and to the rest of the world; to protect the legacy of Welsh music of the past, to nurture Welsh music of the present, and drive the development of new composition; to support professionals and non-professionals, performers and audiences, to perform, composer and experience Welsh music.

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 March 2025, it had income of £709,196 and spent £687,949.

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 £502,292 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £709,196 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 97% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Arts Council of Wales gave £292,500 in the year to 31 March 2025, 41% 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 March 2025: £292,500 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 March 2025, the charity named 2 funders who gave £448,500 between them. £448,500 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.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Rachel Kathleen Ford-EvansChairAppointed 17 December 2021
• Amruta GarudAppointed 20 March 2025
• Christina MacaulayAppointed 22 June 2022
• Claire Louise FosterAppointed 7 December 2022
• Gareth Francis ChurchillAppointed 23 March 2023
• Harriet Elizabeth WyborAppointed 15 October 2019
• Litang ShaoAppointed 7 December 2022
• Niamh O'DonnellAppointed 21 September 2022
• Osamagbe IzevbigieAppointed 1 August 2026

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

1152853

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 July 2013

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 15 Jul 2013 as amended on 20 Dec 2022

Website

www.tycerdd.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth