Newport Playgoers' Society

Stimulate an interest in and a study of the Drama and the dramatic art and to support all that is best in the theatre. To prevent modern plays of great merit from falling into oblivion. To produce new plays. To stimulate the art of acting and the technical skills associated with dramatic productions. To support charities and other associations formed for charitable and educational purposes.

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

In Wales

• Newport City
• Blaenau Gwent
• Cardiff
• Torfaen

Elsewhere

• Cornwall

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £894,190 and spent £281,858.

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 442%, from £165,013 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £894,190 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 32% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £626,908 in the year to 31 March 2025, 70% 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: £646,939 from 3 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 2 funders who gave £646,939 between them. £646,939 of that came from public bodies.

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Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 3 payments to this charity worth £626,908 between 13 February 2025 and 21 March 2025.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

12 trustees run the charity.

• James Paul ReynoldsChair
• Alan HenshallAppointed 4 October 2021
• Alan TrottAppointed 9 July 2013
• Catherine MorganAppointed 2 July 2019
• Eleanor Ruby AstonAppointed 15 July 2014
• Emma Louise McCarthyAppointed 18 July 2023
• Hugh Moelwyn-HughesAppointed 18 July 2023
• James Hywel BarrettAppointed 5 July 2019
• Lynn Frances PhillipsAppointed 14 July 2016
• Rebecca PhillipsAppointed 4 July 2017
• Stuart Peter FouweatherAppointed 12 July 2022
• Susan BurgessAppointed 12 July 2022

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

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 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

232628

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

1 April 1964

Governing document

WILL PROVED AT WALES D.P.R. 4 SEPTEMBER 1980

Website

www.dolmantheatre.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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