Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival

Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, founded in 2010 is an annual festival presenting and celebrating the best of Japan's distinctive anime independent short films and mainstream feature films as well as educational workshops for children and people of all ages. Activities are normally held at two of Wales' leading arts venues, in Cardiff and Aberystwyth, while some may be hosted online.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Ceredigion

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 November 2025, it had income of £16,766 and spent £17,193.

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 22%, from £21,453 in the year to 30 November 2021 to £16,766 in the year to 30 November 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 103% of its income in the year to 30 November 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

93% of its income in the year to 30 November 2021 came from government grants and contracts (£20,000).

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 30 November 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 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2021.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Alexandra Owen-BurnsAppointed 11 November 2024
• Benjamin Hugh RiveAppointed 13 December 2024
• Robin LyonsAppointed 21 March 2022
• William Robert LawrenceAppointed 8 October 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

1187288

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

10 January 2020

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 10 Jan 2020

Website

www.kotatsufestival.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Caerphilly

• 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.

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

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