Aberystwyth Choral Society

The society gives two concerts per year, with professional soloists and full orchestra. Rehearsals are held weekly from September to April or May, and no auditions are required.

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

In Wales

• Powys
• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £13,569 and spent £9,205.

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 429%, from £2,567 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £13,569 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 68% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 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 August 2025: £250 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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Cecilia Mary CrightonAppointed 3 June 2024
• Dr WILLIAM TIMOTHY PERKINS
• Gareth KellyAppointed 8 November 2022
• Ramy Mostafa Hassan ElabbadiAppointed 26 November 2024
• Timothy James Cutts
• Timothy Michael JohnsonAppointed 1 September 2021
• Wendy Mary CrockettAppointed 1 September 2021

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

500518

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 November 1970

Governing document

RULES AND CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 8TH SEPTEMBER 1970 AS AMENDED 13TH FEBRUARY 1990, 27TH APRIL 1993, 20TH SEPTEMBER 1994, 8 OCTOBER 1996 AND 28 FEBRUARY 2006.

Website

sites.google.com/site/aberystwythchoralsociety/homeAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro