Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre

Our aim is to support the artistic and community activities undertaken at Pontardawe Arts Centre. Promoting public interest and education in the arts by supporting and assisting the provision of facilities at the Centre. We seek to provide practical and financial support and volunteering opportunities for the Centre, an important cultural, educational and recreational community hub.

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

In Wales

• Neath Port Talbot

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £18,484 and spent £33,434.

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.

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Income over time

Up 1,226%, from £1,394 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £18,484 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 181% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. 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 December 2025: £12,836 from 1 grant. 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.

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

• 25 May 2026

  Named in a registered interest of Sioned Williams, Member of the Senedd

  Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.

  Information relevant to entry: Member – Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre

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• 18 June 2025

  Named by Sioned Williams in the Senedd

  …f the town and surrounding area, sustained not only by institutional support but by the committed energy of the local community. The Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre, founded in 2017 in response to a threat to the centre's future due to local authority spending cuts, has since become a vital force…

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7 trustees run the charity.

• Dr GRANT LOGAN DUNCANChairAppointed 2 May 2019
• David Philip Lloyd Davies LLBAppointed 2 May 2019
• Heather PudnerAppointed 1 July 2020
• Jill Allison Williams M.a.Appointed 2 May 2019
• John PuzeyAppointed 10 June 2021
• Kathleen Ann DaviesAppointed 2 May 2019
• Rosemary WilliamsAppointed 26 April 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

1181401

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 January 2019

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 03 Jan 2019

Website

fopac.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Neath Port Talbot

• 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.
• 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: Neath Port Talbot Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Neath Port Talbot's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda