Disability Arts Cymru

DAC works throughout Wales to promote equal opportunities in the arts for disabled people. Our services include:- arts-specific disability equality training; consultations around disability policy and implementation, relating to the arts; information/advice; development work to increase opportunities in the arts for disabled people; large scale strategic projects; publications; membership scheme

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 £274,018 and spent £309,762.

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 9%, from £299,703 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £274,018 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 March 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 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2020, worth at least £99,857.

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 1 payment to this charity worth £481, on 29 September 2023.

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.

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

• 12 March 2024

  Named by Hannah Blythyn in the Senedd

  …first disabled president of the National Union of Journalists. Natasha is well known to many of us in the Siambr and is also the chair of Disability Arts Cymru, a member of the Welsh Government’s disability rights taskforce, and, of course, a committed trade union and equality activist. At the Ethn…

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• 8 February 2024

  Named by Ruth Cocks in the Senedd

  …Beyond Access from 2018 to 2023. It was a €2 million programme across seven countries, and it worked with the likes of Hijinx in Wales and Disability Arts Cymru. We are now not able to be a main part of that—we led the consortium—but we have chosen to be an associate partner. That means putting in m…

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• 8 February 2024

  Named by Eluned Haf in the Senedd

  I wanted to pay tribute to companies in the sector who are really taking memberships of networks seriously, such as Disability Arts Cymru, who have created a European network of their own for disability arts, and who've been really trailblazing some amazing work against the odds, funded through diff…

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• 5 July 2023

  Named by Kath Davies in the Senedd

  …ery effort to try and make it representative and not go into the same old, same old. So, a range of organisations, groups of young people, Disability Arts Cymru—across the piece. And, as I say, the WJEC. I could give you the full list of who we consulted with. We also included artists as well and cr…

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12 trustees run the charity.

• Natasha HirstChairAppointed 12 October 2020
• Alun Llwyd JonesAppointed 18 October 2022
• Damian Joseph BridgemanAppointed 1 October 2025
• David TurnerAppointed 12 October 2020
• Dominic Gerrard WilliamsAppointed 11 October 2023
• Heledd BianchiAppointed 30 September 2026
• Ioana AmesAppointed 1 October 2025
• Kenneth Jonathan Rex LuxtonAppointed 11 October 2021
• Macsen McKayAppointed 11 October 2023
• Marva Charmaine LordAppointed 9 October 2024
• Nia Naseem Edwards-BehiAppointed 30 September 2026
• Rhiannon Elizabeth BarberAppointed 30 September 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.

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

1176578

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 January 2018

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 09 Jan 2018

Website

disabilityarts.cymruAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Carmarthenshire

• 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.
• 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 the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Carmarthenshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Carmarthenshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin