Clwb Ifor Bach

Clwb Ifor Bach presents a range of music performances, advises and provides opportunities for new and emerging artists and works in partnership with other Welsh charities to deliver a programme of activities in line with its charitable objects. The majority of our work happens at our Cardiff venue, but we also look for opportunities to work in other spaces, both in Cardiff and elsewhere in Wales.

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 December 2025, it had income of £2,137,315 and spent £2,104,354.

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 441%, from £395,000 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,137,315 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 98% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Cardiff Council gave £150,000 in the year to 31 December 2025, 7% 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 December 2025: £167,668 from 2 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 December 2025, the charity named 4 funders who gave £173,868 between them. £167,668 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £15,000, awarded in 2022.

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 £272,500 between 8 June 2021 and 12 January 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.

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

• 14 May 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Economy & Culture Scrutiny Committee

  Music Strategy and Cardiff Music City Festival Update

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• 30 November 2023, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

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• 29 September 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

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We count a mention only when the record gives the charity's full registered name or its charity number. A mention shows the charity was named in that record. Follow the link to read what the record says.

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

• 2 July 2026

  Named in a registered interest of Anna Brychan, Member of the Senedd

  Category: Voluntary record of Members’ other interests.

  Information relevant to entry: Brother is CEO of Clwb Ifor Bach.

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• 22 May 2024

  Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd

  …a number of disappointments along the way, but my father was always positive. The referendum and election in 1979 encouraged him to establish Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff. When the 1997 referendum came about, he organised the telephone canvassing. With a majority of less than 7,000, I'm sure the fact…

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• 14 May 2024

  Named by Y Llywydd / The Llywydd in the Senedd

  …bly. He made a lifelong contribution to the growth of Welsh-medium education in the capital city, and he was one of the founders of the famous Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff. Our sincerest condolences as a Senedd are passed to Owen John Thomas's family and all of his friends. Prynhawn da. Cyn i ni gymryd…

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• 27 September 2023

  Named by Rhys ab Owen in the Senedd

  …had in taking down the union jack and removing plaques bearing names such as the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Room. Yes, the British Legion became Clwb Ifor Bach, taking a name that had been forgotten to all intents and purposes, namely Ifor ap Meurig, who climbed the tower of Cardiff castle, a stone’s…

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• 25 May 2023

  Named by Gerwyn Evans in the Senedd

7 trustees run the charity.

• Sion TudurChairAppointed 18 February 2019
• Andrew Ceri ElliotAppointed 21 September 2022
• Lara Joan HerdeAppointed 21 September 2022
• Lucy Alexandra PriceAppointed 21 September 2022
• Matthew Llewelyn PhippsAppointed 21 September 2022
• Stephen DimmickAppointed 10 December 2025
• Tracey Clare MarshAppointed 21 September 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.

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

1186136

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 November 2019

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 04 Nov 2019

Website

www.clwb.netAs 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.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth