Cardiff and Vale Youth Orchestra Association

To advance the musical education of children and young persons under the age of 22 years who are ordinarily resident in or who receive their education within Cardiff County and the Vale of Glamorgan, by the provision of financial assistance, facilities or amenities additional to those provided by the local education authorities.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff
• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: County of South Glamorgan

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £9,615 and spent £5,946.

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 128%, from £4,215 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £9,615 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 62% 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.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Gareth Bernard Matthewson OBEChairAppointed 6 October 2017
• Dr Anthony Raymond WilliamsAppointed 1 March 2001
• Eric Phillips
• Heather GuyAppointed 1 January 2007
• Mrs Nina Davies

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, 4 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

510840

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 December 1980

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 19 MARCH 1980 AS AMENDED 3 OCTOBER 1980, 4 JULY 1987, 12 OCTOBER 1990, 4 OCTOBER 2002, as amended on 20 Oct 2023

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• 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

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