Black Mountain Jazz

Black Mountain Jazz operates from Abergavenny and advances the arts for the public benefit by promoting jazz music in all its forms. This includes regular 'live' performances, featuring some of the best musicians in the UK and from abroad. It also produces virtual material that can be widely enjoyed. Additionally, it organises workshops to meet diverse interests, including a youth big band.

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 £24,197 and spent £24,236.

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 85%, from £13,079 in the year to 31 December 2022 to £24,197 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 4 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: £4,000 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Michael SkiltonChairAppointed 19 May 2022
• Christopher HooperAppointed 4 September 2025
• Gareth WildeAppointed 18 August 2026
• Jayne CarterAppointed 8 October 2024
• Nicola Eluned HassettAppointed 21 August 2025

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

1199013

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 May 2022

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 19 May 2022

Website

blackmountainjazz.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• 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.

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

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