Break It Down
What it does
Break it Down aims - in pursuit of its charitable objectives - to provide dance instruction to young people who would otherwise not be able to receive such services. The focus of the first year has been: developing models of operation and proposals for projects and funding; fundraising and the establishment of a website.
Its charitable purposes
TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE TEACHING OF THE DANCE FORM KNOWN AS ‘BREAKIN’ AND ITS ASSOCIATED CULTURE, ART AND MUSIC SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES, AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS
Causes
- What it works on
- Education and training
- Arts, culture, heritage and science
- Economic and community development, and employment
- Recreation
- Who it helps
- Children and young people
- How it works
- Provides services
Where it works
- In Wales
- Blaenau Gwent
- Caerphilly
- Cardiff
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Elsewhere
- Throughout London
Income and spending
In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £0 and spent £0.
| Year ending | Income | Spending | Paid staff | Volunteers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £0 | £0 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 5 April 2024 | £0 | £0 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 5 April 2023 | £0 | £0 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 5 April 2022 | £0 | £0 | Not reported | 1 |
| 5 April 2021 | £0 | £0 | Not reported | Not reported |
Government funding, as the charity reported it
Government grants in the year ending 5 April 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.
| Year ending | Government grants | Government contracts |
|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 5 April 2024 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 5 April 2023 | Not reported | Not reported |
Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving
No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.
In council meetings
Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.
16 October 2024, Rhondda Cynon Taf
Named in an agenda item or minute of Community Services Scrutiny Committee
DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2023/24
27 January 2022, Cardiff
Named in an agenda item or minute of Council
Oral Questions
In the Senedd and Welsh Government
Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.
29 January 2026
Named by James Price in the Senedd
…ing, we've got the right number of trains, and we've got the right number of team members to deliver that. On CVL, and this is why I wanted to break it down, as we move forward, the cancellations number—and I'd want to discuss this with you in a longer session, if it's okay—may become less important…
22 January 2026
Named by Emma Williams in the Senedd
…lion or thereabouts, which is a slight increase on the previous year, for a number of reasons. We don't have a set of disaggregated figures to break it down in numerical terms, but there are a number of reasons lying behind that—pay inflation, obviously, but also changes in national insurance contri…
20 November 2025
Named by Yr Athro Melanie Jones in the Senedd
…work trying to improve UK public sector productivity measurement. Within those statistics, we get the UK aggregates, but then, when you try to break it down, you always see that it's England, and there are no comparable Wales figures. Whilst many of the trends—we've talked about Wales following the…
30 April 2025
Named by Yr Athro Bridget Emmett in the Senedd
Very often, the whole chain isn't set up, and the distribution networks to create those biocomposite things that break it down. That takes investment, and we're not a rich nation. So, it takes a political piece of thought to say, 'We're going to do this. It's going to take money.' But you've got to…
Trustees
3 trustees run the charity.
- Tom Walker BarristerChair
- Adam Blunt
- Dr Martin Johnes PhD
Filing record
Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.
| Year ending | Due | Annual return | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | 5 February 2026 | Received 5 February 2026 | Received 5 February 2026 |
| 5 April 2024 | 5 February 2025 | Received 5 February 2025 | Received 5 February 2025 |
| 5 April 2023 | 5 February 2024 | Received 13 February 2024, 8 days late | Received 13 February 2024 |
| 5 April 2022 | 5 February 2023 | Received 17 February 2023, 12 days late | Received 17 February 2023 |
| 5 April 2021 | 5 February 2022 | Received 4 February 2022, 1 day early | Received 4 February 2022 |
About this charity
- Charity number
- 1153727
- Status
- Registered
- Registered with the Commission
- 9 September 2013
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 09 Sep 2013
- Website
- www.webreakitdown.org
- Council area of its contact address
- Cardiff
Sources
- 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
- In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.
- In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.
Elsewhere in the Edau family
- OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
- OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
- 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