Friends of the Arts Centre

Provide support to the Aberystwyth Arts Centre a) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interest of social welfare such facilities being provided to the public at large and b) The advancement of education, culture and the arts

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: The Inhabitants of Aberystwyth, Mid-wales and Beyond

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £2,181 and spent £1,487.

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

Down 40%, from £3,650 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £2,181 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 68% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 3 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 March 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.

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.

• Carol Jacqueline King Bainbridge B PhilChairAppointed 4 April 2016
• Carol Elizabeth NixonAppointed 4 April 2016
• Caroline Elizabeth ClarkAppointed 1 June 2023
• Catherine Anna JacksonWalley MA MPhilAppointed 4 April 2016
• Christopher HodgsonAppointed 4 April 2016
• Joan Ceridwen Rowlands M Phil BAAppointed 4 April 2016
• Katrina WilliamsAppointed 1 June 2023
• Sofia Alice Rebecca Ropek Hewson Ba HonsAppointed 4 April 2016
• Sue Jones-daviesAppointed 4 April 2016

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

1162818

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 July 2015

Governing document

CIO - Association Registered 24 Jul 2015

Website

artscentrefriends.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro