National Youth Arts Wales

Performing arts

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,186,938 and spent £1,246,457.

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 112%, from £560,577 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,186,938 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Paul Hamlyn gave £70,216 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: £607,640 from 4 grants. 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 9 funders who gave £221,472 between them. £38,050 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 6 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £118,577.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 4 payments to this charity worth £166,285 between 10 June 2024 and 2 June 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 29 January 2026, Swansea

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Announcements of the Presiding Member.

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Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 4 March 2026

  Named by Rhianon Passmore in the Senedd

  …a midwife that directly bore the national music service, and developed and mainstreamed those possibilities and probabilities. A strong National Youth Arts Wales, which provides Wales's innovative national orchestral, band and choral opportunities, is also now delivering on so much more. Nonetheles…

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• 4 March 2026

  Named by Rhianon Passmore in the Senedd

  …s has transformed and the careers it has launched, and that we celebrate and nurture such national treasures and its creative home with National Youth Arts Wales's innovative leadership. It is about time that we celebrate our dedicated and hard-working national cultural organisations. I myself wish…

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• 18 September 2024

  Named by Vikki Howells in the Senedd

  …n for music education, the national music service is working with key partners, including the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and National Youth Arts Wales, to identify and provide support and signposting for our talented young musicians. This work is focused on ensuring that they have opport…

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• 10 July 2024

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec CSJ (LG)

  Purpose: Celfyddydau Cenedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru / National Youth Arts Wales.

  Celfyddydau Cenedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru / National Youth Arts Wales

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• 31 January 2024

  Named by Delyth Jewell in the Senedd

  …levision, can earn good wages. But we also heard that the music, arts and culture sectors are struggling to retain staff because of pay. National Youth Arts Wales told us that trying to keep up with pay increases in the short term is requiring organisations to dip into reserves or funding allocated…

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• 25 May 2023

  Named by Tom Giffard in the Senedd

  …Music Venue Trust, when they came to us a few months ago—said that the creative skills fund was focused more towards tv and production. National Youth Arts Wales said that there was a focus on film and television, and there isn't a similar route for arts and culture. Do you think you've got the bal…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …choice. Wales is a small country and people will naturally go where the work is. But I feel like the arts sector is—. I always say that National Youth Arts Wales is working with enlightened self-interest. We want a workforce that is diverse and fit for purpose, but I'm also thinking about who we, a…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …e private sector, but one of the particular issues that we have is that we feel that we're doing the training—and when I say 'we' I mean National Youth Arts Wales and our partners—and then, this issue that we have at the minute about retention of the workforce is that we're doing the training and th…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …the opportunities. I know that we're talking a lot about the problems, but we've still got to look at the other end and the longer term. National Youth Arts Wales runs a project called Professional Pathways in partnership with Theatr Clwyd and Wales Millennium Centre and that's about offstage skills…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …ticipants, it's hard to measure because I'm not currently aware of any baseline information for Wales, but I can talk specifically about National Youth Arts Wales. According to an anonymous survey we did, about 14 per cent of our workforce, both freelance and otherwise, are from global majority back…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  I think, from National Youth Arts Wales's perspective, in terms of our current workforce, we're looking at—. In terms of addressing retention, we're trying to make sure that, while we can, we are continuing to pay recommended rates and fees, as recommended by the lead bodies—the Music Union, the Bro…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  First of all, thank you very much for the opportunity to give evidence this morning. I think, just speaking from a National Youth Arts Wales perspective, we're a small organisation, but we do employ about 200 to 250 freelancers each year. I think the particular issues around freelance staff are real…

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• 26 October 2022

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  Bore da. I'm Gillian Mitchell. I'm the chief executive of National Youth Arts Wales.

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• 26 May 2022

  Named in a written question from Janet Finch-Saunders

  Addressed to the Minister for Economy.

  …omposer development across Wales, including North Wales, as well as support for amateur music associations, such as operatic societies • National Youth Arts Wales (APW) supports young musicians across Wales as part its national music ensembles • North Wales International Music Festival – which progr…

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• 17 May 2022

  Named in a written question from Heledd Fychan

  Addressed to the Minister for Education and the Welsh Language.

  What funding has been put in place under the new Plan for Music Education for National Youth Arts Wales to ensure a sustainable future for the six national ensembles, and to support their work around widening access to training and development opportunities for young people of all backgrounds? Subst…

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• 24 November 2021

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …ust wanted to say, around culture recovery fund 3, although it's not in my gift, as a recipient of the culture recovery fund previously, National Youth Arts Wales would have unlikely survived the pandemic as a young organisation without the support of the Arts Council of Wales, Welsh Government and…

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• 24 November 2021

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  …orchestra in the world, and quite often collaborate with other youth orchestras globally and within Europe. As well as that, many of the National Youth Arts Wales alumni, particularly in theatre and music, those kind of global household names and acting, are all alumni of our national youth ensemble…

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• 24 November 2021

  Named by Gillian Mitchell in the Senedd

  Bore da—good morning. I'm Gillian Mitchell, I'm the chief executive of National Youth Arts Wales.

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• 14 September 2021

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Dep Min for AS & CW

  Purpose: National Youth Arts Wales.

  National Youth Arts Wales

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• 14 September 2021

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Min for EWL

  Purpose: Celfyddydau Cenedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru / National Youth Arts Wales.

  Celfyddydau Cenedlaethol Ieuenctid Cymru / National Youth Arts Wales

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10 trustees run the charity.

• Karen PimbleyChairAppointed 7 April 2017
• Anthony John MatsenaAppointed 22 July 2020
• Christina Louise TimmsAppointed 6 March 2026
• Geraint Owen PughAppointed 6 March 2026
• Isaac Oliver Edward LewisAppointed 8 November 2023
• Mared Heledd BrowningAppointed 8 November 2023
• Matthew James Tyndall SmithAppointed 6 March 2026
• Peter Thomas CurranAppointed 6 May 2021
• Rhys WatkinsAppointed 8 November 2023
• Sanea Jitendra SinghAppointed 20 March 2026

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.

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Charity number

1170643

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

8 December 2016

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 OCT 2016 as amended on 21 May 2026

Company number

10449512This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.nyaw.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• 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.

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• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
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