Cowbridge Music Festival

Cowbridge Music Festival is an annual festival, held in September in the Vale of Glamorgan, of chamber, instrumental and vocal music, jazz and folk music. Providing opportunities for young musicians it includes an extensive schools outreach programme, concerts given by young musicians and the Chamber Music Seminar. The Festival Fringe was started in 2018 to give opportunities to local music groups

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

In Wales

• Bridgend
• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £106,432 and spent £113,997.

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 64%, from £64,795 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £106,432 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 107% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

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 December 2025: Not reported. 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £2,000, awarded in 2022.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Michael John Hilary TrickeyChairAppointed 14 December 2024
• Eluned PierceAppointed 22 December 2012
• Janet DaviesAppointed 29 June 2026
• Judy Lynne LeeringAppointed 24 March 2025
• Julia ChampionAppointed 14 December 2024
• Lynne PlowmanAppointed 14 December 2024
• Mary Elliott RoseAppointed 5 February 2010
• Tessa ShellensAppointed 22 December 2012

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

1162524

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 July 2015

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 03 Jul 2015

Website

www.cowbridgemusicfestival.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.
• 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
• 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