Memorial Hall and Theatre

The Memo works with the widest group of partners to deliver support and strengthen our connection to our audiences and users of all ages and backgrounds within the context of the local social economic environment. The Memo is the largest arts centre in the Vale of Glamorgan and the only cinema in Barry.

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

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £668,080 and spent £740,351.

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 86%, from £359,492 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £668,080 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 111% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Arts Council of Wales gave £40,166 in the year to 31 March 2025, 6% 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: £7,215 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 4 funders who gave £64,353 between them. £47,381 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.

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.

3 trustees run the charity.

• Gemma BrownAppointed 22 April 2024
• Karen Ghazi-torbatiAppointed 22 July 2020
• Richard ThomasAppointed 1 December 2013

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, 4 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

1155291

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 January 2014

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 10 Jan 2014

Website

www.memoartscentre.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth