Rhondda Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 1968, the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra (RSO) is a leisure-time music group performing symphonic concerts to local communities in South Wales. With around 60 active members, the orchestra attracts young musicians, while many have remained with the orchestra for over 30 years. The RSO also awards annual bursaries to young musicians leaving school to help with their further development.

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

In Wales

• Rhondda Cynon Taf

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £18,600 and spent £17,076.

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 25%, from £14,935 in the year to 31 March 2023 to £18,600 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 92% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent less than its income in each of the 3 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: 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.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Elin Mair HowardAppointed 2 July 2026
• Lucie JonesAppointed 11 May 2024
• Nicholas Lloyd JamesAppointed 11 May 2023
• Vivienne JohnAppointed 11 May 2023

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

Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 1 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

1200455

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 September 2022

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 08 JAN 2022

Website

rso.cymruAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
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• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
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