Welsh National Theatre

The charity has not given a description on the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2026, it had income of £849,073 and spent £573,794.

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.

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Spending against income

It spent 68% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026.

Largest funder

Colwinston Charitable Trust gave £250,000 in the year to 31 March 2026, 29% 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 2026: £50,000 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 2026, the charity named 4 funders who gave £495,000 between them. £230,000 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £15,000, awarded in 2025.

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

• 18 June 2025

  Named by Lee Waters in the Senedd

  …. But it was Carwyn in Llanelli that reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the theatre. I'm excited by Michael Sheen's plans for a Swansea-based Welsh national theatre, and I've booked my tickets for the Swansea Grand Theatre to see Russell T. Davies's take on Our Town in January. I've been blown away by…

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• 15 January 2025

  Named by Jack Sargeant in the Senedd

  …I think it’s absolutely fantastic; he’s a great ambassador for Wales. I would be delighted to have a conversation about his plans for the Welsh national theatre and the announcement around that. On National Theatre Wales and the discussions around what the future was for them, they had those direct…

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6 trustees run the charity.

• Dr John Mark Frost PhD, CPsychol
• Dr Rachel Elizabeth O Riordan
• Dyfed Elwy Fleetwood Alsop
• Helen Protheroe
• Michael Sheen
• Rakie AyolaAppointed 31 March 2025

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.

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Charity number

1211635

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

9 January 2025

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 09 Jan 2025

Website

welshnationaltheatre.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

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

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
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