Norwegian Church Cardiff Bay

The charity manages the incoming Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay. It focuses on: Heritage - interpreting the rich history of the church since 1868 and its transfer to the existing site in 1992; Arts - running an arts programme; Community - working with local organisations and hosting events; encouraging Norwegian links with Wales.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £83,674 and spent £132,254.

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 167%, from £31,306 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £83,674 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 158% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 4 years shown.

Largest funder

National Heritage gave £49,737 in the year to 31 March 2025, 59% 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 March 2025: £9,000 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 3 funders who gave £62,737 between them. £9,000 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 2 grants to this charity since 2022, worth at least £240,014.

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.

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

• 12 March 2025, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Policy Review and Performance Scrutiny Committee

  Trusts Governance

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• 16 November 2021, Cardiff

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

  Old Library & Norwegian Church - to follow

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

• 19 November 2025

  Named in a ministerial meeting or engagement: Cabsec Education

  Purpose: Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay.

  Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay

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4 trustees run the charity.

• Dr MARTIN LIONEL REES PRICEChairAppointed 27 January 2021
• Cato SyversenAppointed 27 September 2021
• Michael John ParkinsonAppointed 27 September 2021
• Philip HoyAppointed 13 December 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 4 annual returns that were due, 4 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

1195926

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 September 2021

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Sep 2021

Website

www.norwegianchurchcardiff.comAs 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 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• 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
• 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