The Friends of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts

Promote and support the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts, and music and the arts generally, in Swansea and the surrounding area.

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

In Wales

• Carmarthenshire
• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: Swansea and Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,993 and spent £5,124.

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

Down 15%, from £3,539 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,993 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 171% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 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.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Michael Warren LockeChair
• Caroline Elisabeth PalmerAppointed 27 June 2012
• Janet Mary Thomas
• Margaret Ellis MorrisAppointed 27 June 2012
• Philip GreenAppointed 14 June 2016
• William John Anderson

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

512106

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

2 December 1981

Governing document

RULES ADOPTED 04/06/1972AS AMENDED ON 08/04/1981AS AMENDED ON 20/04/2005AS AMENDED ON 11/07/2012

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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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