Operasonic Cyf

Operasonic creates opera projects and performances with and for young people that are led by professional artists. Participation is at the heart of our practice, and we create new opera in collaboration with our young participants, based on their stories and creativity. Operasonic is based in Newport, South Wales.

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

In Wales

• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly
• Cardiff
• Monmouthshire
• Newport City
• Torfaen
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Elsewhere

• Gloucestershire
• South Gloucestershire
• Bristol City

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £204,788 and spent £132,960.

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 189%, from £70,953 in the year to 5 April 2021 to £204,788 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 65% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

69% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£141,975).

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 5 April 2025: £118,575 from 3 grants. Government contracts: £23,400 from 5 contracts.

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 7 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £96,430.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Rhian Christabel HutchingsChairAppointed 16 September 2020
• Claire Joanne HillAppointed 19 January 2022
• Julia TuckerAppointed 5 June 2024
• Michelle WallAppointed 10 December 2025
• Onismo Tawanda MuhlangaAppointed 5 June 2024
• Paula Jane SiddallAppointed 10 December 2025
• Shakira MahabirAppointed 9 October 2018

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

1166121

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 March 2016

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26 NOV 2014

Company number

09327941This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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

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