Anthem. Music Fund Wales

To advance young people in Wales aged 0 to 30 to achieve their potential through musical opportunities and activities by; making musical opportunity across Wales accessible; developing musical opportunity in all genres and in all communities; identifying and nurturing talent and ability; and supporting career pathways in music and the music industry.

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 £289,772 and spent £417,421.

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 6,159%, from £4,630 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £289,772 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 144% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 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: £18,981 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 8 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £558,700.

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.

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

• 17 December 2021

  Named in a written question from Jayne Bryant

  Addressed to the Minister for Economy.

  Will the Minister provide an update on the Anthem, Music Fund Wales? The Anthem board has approved an ambitious business plan for 2021-24, setting out the organisations aims, key activities, and current financial context. David Alston, one of the original Trustees and formerly Director of Arts at Ar…

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15 trustees run the charity.

• Emyr Afan DaviesChairAppointed 26 November 2024
• Ben LewisAppointed 26 November 2024
• Catrin Hughes RobertsAppointed 27 January 2021
• Dafydd Herbert-PritchardAppointed 26 November 2024
• Gwenda Mary CarnieAppointed 28 June 2023
• Hayley SmithAppointed 28 June 2023
• Ifunanychukwu Susan Leatrice IwobiAppointed 25 February 2021
• James RadcliffeAppointed 28 June 2023
• Kofi Baidu AcheampongAppointed 26 November 2025
• Laurence Alexander CollierAppointed 28 June 2023
• Martin Huw GriffithsAppointed 15 July 2026
• Mx Ella May PearsonAppointed 16 February 2022
• Natalie Monica RoeAppointed 26 November 2024
• Rosey Morwenna BrownAppointed 26 November 2024
• Ryan James SinghAppointed 16 February 2022

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

1182024

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

13 February 2019

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 MAR 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 12 FEB 2019 as amended on 05 Dec 2023

Company number

11240995This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.anthem.walesAs 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.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• 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
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• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth