Wyeside Arts Centre Limited

Wyeside Arts Centre offers a stimulating and entertaining Arts programme of breadth and quality, accessible to everyone, including: Live shows, Cinema, Satellite Live! screenings, Visual Arts exhibitions, Workshops, Youth Theatre, Community and Educational events for the people of Mid Wales.

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

In Wales

• Powys

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 2026, it had income of £738,864 and spent £745,213.

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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Income over time

Up 146%, from £300,587 in the year to 31 March 2022 to £738,864 in the year to 31 March 2026.

Spending against income

It spent 101% of its income in the year to 31 March 2026. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Welsh Government gave £200,000 in the year to 31 March 2026, 27% 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: £439,839 from 5 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 2026, the charity named 9 funders who gave £462,039 between them. £250,132 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 6 grants to this charity since 2015, worth at least £64,196.

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Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 5 March 2026, Powys

  Named in a decision of County Council

  Appointments to Outside Bodies

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• 22 July 2022, Powys

  Named in a decision of County Council

  Appointment of Councillors to Outside Bodies

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• 22 July 2022, Powys

  Named in a document for a council meeting

  Wyeside Arts Centre Trustee role description Jan 2021

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

• 4 March 2025

  Named by Jane Dodds in the Senedd

  …l roads, pavements and public toilets; £5 million to improve water pollution; and specific investments in Mid and West Wales, including the Wyeside Arts Centre, north Powys well-being campus, and Brynaman Lido. By putting people before politics, I hope to have shown that meaningful change is possibl…

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• 4 March 2025

  Named by Joyce Watson in the Senedd

  …ket looks like. That's what having a conversation looks like. So, let's just take what's happening, and Jane does take credit for this. The Wyeside Arts Centre and north Powys well-being campus will have extra money, and I hope, James, when you go back, that you shout around, saying, 'I didn't vote…

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• 21 November 2023

  Named by Lesley Griffiths in the Senedd

  …opportunity to engage with the appeals process. Unfortunately, that did close, so I hope they did do that, if that was the case. And around Wyeside Arts Centre, as you say, they have been successful. They haven't received the full amount, and unfortunately many successful organisations, with the cur…

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• 21 November 2023

  Named by Jane Dodds in the Senedd

  …the funding of the arts. Organisations in my region such as the Hafren, Mid Wales Opera and Impelo have lost their funding completely. The Wyeside Arts Centre, which is an iconic venue serving the people of Powys in Builth Wells for decades, has had its support cut to a mere 20 per cent. And, sadly…

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11 trustees run the charity.

• Professor Frank Reginald John BanksChairAppointed 17 March 2021
• Carolyn Jane Lancaster
• Cllr Corinna Esther Lucy Kenyon-WadeAppointed 9 September 2022
• Cllr Gareth Emlyn JonesAppointed 18 March 2026
• David Anthony ChildsAppointed 8 December 2021
• David Rowland PriceAppointed 28 January 2015
• David Thomas Lloyd
• Gareth Malcolm JonesAppointed 5 June 2024
• Huw Andrew Sinclair ChanceAppointed 3 October 2017
• Jeremy Robert AndrewsAppointed 8 April 2021
• Martha Suzanne WooldridgeAppointed 8 April 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.

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Charity number

505656

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 October 1976

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 OCTOBER 1976 as amended on 23 Sep 2020 as amended on 23 Sep 2020

Company number

01279900This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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 council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Powys Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Powys's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn