Arts Active Trust

Through outreach programmes devised, facilitated and implemented by Arts Active to promote the arts. The charity works with Cardiff Council and other partners in Wales, to engage with communities in Cardiff and beyond; to encourage interest in and appreciation of music, performing arts and multidisciplinary arts projects through participation, education and audience development.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardiff

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £177,389 and spent £202,683.

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 41%, from £125,971 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £177,389 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 114% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

91% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025 came from government grants and contracts (£160,547).

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: £150,618 from 2 grants. Government contracts: £9,929 from 1 contract.

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.

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.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 4 grants to this charity since 2018, worth at least £326,607.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £200, on 3 December 2020.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

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

• 27 January 2022, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

  Read the meeting record

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6 trustees run the charity.

• David BaxterChairAppointed 8 October 2019
• Brian WeirAppointed 3 October 2022
• Christina Jane MacaulayAppointed 29 October 2025
• Lowri HaleAppointed 20 July 2023
• Marie PhilippeAppointed 16 October 2024
• Ruby LlewelynAppointed 18 June 2026

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

702973

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

31 May 1990

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 DECEMBER 1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 OCT 2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 NOV 2016 as amended on 30 Apr 2025

Company number

02454546This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.artsactive.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 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
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth