The Torch Theatre Company Limited

Production of plays and musical theatre, touring of theatre productions to Wales and beyond, educational projects and buying in a range of performances to provide an extensive programme

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion
• Carmarthenshire
• Pembrokeshire

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 £1,889,682 and spent £1,962,289.

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 57%, from £1,207,336 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,889,682 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 104% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Arts Council of Wales gave £633,750 in the year to 31 March 2025, 34% 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: £780,239 from 8 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 13 funders who gave £810,227 between them. £648,750 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2023.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Ann OwstonAppointed 16 June 2020
• Dr CAROL ANN MACKINTOSH
• Katrina MarshAppointed 11 September 2019
• Max MackintoshAppointed 8 December 2021
• Megan Victoria ChildsAppointed 18 June 2025
• Rhys Sinnett
• Sian-Elin DaviesAppointed 18 June 2025
• Yvonne Grace SouthwellAppointed 17 January 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

508985

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

25 July 1979

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/08/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/07/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08/08/2011

Company number

01327289This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• 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.

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

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