Rhondda Arts Festival Treorchy (Raft)

The purposes of the charity are to promote and assist in the advancement of the education and the arts including Music, Drama, Dance, Literature, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, the graphic and digital arts, and to extend and increase the public appreciation knowledge and understanding of the arts in all their forms in Rhondda, South Wales

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 December 2025, it had income of £79,196 and spent £79,386.

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.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025.

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: £15,000 from 15,000 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2024, worth at least £25,365.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Rhian RichardsChairAppointed 1 September 2024
• Emma WattsAppointed 1 September 2024
• Harriet FleuriotAppointed 10 July 2025
• Mark HarveyAppointed 1 September 2024
• Rhys Slade-JonesAppointed 10 July 2025
• Tamara BrabonAppointed 1 September 2024
• Wendy LewisAppointed 1 September 2024

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

The last annual return that was due 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

1209780

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

28 August 2024

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 28 Aug 2024

Website

www.raft.cymruAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Rhondda Cynon Taf Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Rhondda Cynon Taf's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda