Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts

Music & Arts Festival

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• Neath Port Talbot
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea of Elsewhere

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,020 and spent £8,281.

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 261%, from £559 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,020 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 410% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Maldwyn Lloyd PopeChairAppointed 14 February 2018
• Arthur Michael DayAppointed 22 April 2024
• Claire Louise AthertonAppointed 7 July 2025
• Dr Lucy JefferyAppointed 20 April 2026
• Hope Rebecca PughAppointed 20 April 2026
• Jonathan Arthur LycettAppointed 26 January 2026
• Martyn Spencer JenkinsAppointed 1 September 2015
• Philip Llewellyn HunkinAppointed 8 June 2016
• Stephanos Nicholaus MastorisAppointed 4 September 2013

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

507765

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 July 1978

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/12/1951AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 23/05/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29/05/2012

Company number

00502718This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Neath Port Talbot

• 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: Neath Port Talbot Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Neath Port Talbot's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda