COMMUNITY MUSIC WALES/CERDDORIAETH GYMUNEDOL CYMRU

Registered charity 1009867 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CERDD GYMUNEDOL CYMRU, CIWDOD, COMMUNITY MUSIC WALES, COMPLETE CONTROL MUSIC

TO ENCOURAGE MUSIC-MAKING THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AND TO PLACE PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON WORKING WITH DISADVANTAGED GROUPS THROUGHOUT WALES.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN WALES BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE IN MUSIC MAKING AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MUSICAL WORKS;TO ENCOURAGE MUSIC-MAKING AND PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY;TO ASSIST GROUPS TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO MUSIC TUITION, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND REHEARSAL SPACE, AND TO PLACE PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON WORKING WITH DISADVANTAGED GROUPS; ANDTO PRESENT, RESEARCH, PROMOTE, ORGANISE, MANAGE AND CONDUCT SUCH PERFORMANCES, PRODUCTIONS, EVENTS, EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, OR OTHER ARTS ACTIVITIES (HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "PRODUCTIONS") AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Caerphilly, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net liability position of £9,130, having overspent its unrestricted funds to cover core costs. The trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis, anticipating an unrestricted surplus in the following year to rectify the position.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02695368

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Community Music Wales (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Cornerstones Foundation — “....Cornerstones Foundation .. Conglfeini Sylfaen....” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• APOSTOLOPOULOS, Stavros — director, appointed 15/08/2026on trustee list
• LILE, Emma, Dr — director, appointed 22/07/2024on trustee list
• BENAVENTE, Simeon Andres — director, appointed 15/03/2024on trustee list
• CORRIGAN, Nicholas Paul — director, appointed 03/12/2021on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 22/11/2021on trustee list
• STARK, Alicia Nicole, Dr. — director, appointed 15/05/2018on trustee list
• SMITH, Sarah Jacquelyn — secretary, appointed 25/09/2008

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Alicia Nicole Stark
• Dr Emma Lile
• MALAN FON JONES
• Nicholas Paul Corrigan
• Rebecca Louise Richards
• Stavros Apostolopoulos

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MORE THAN MUSIC CYMRU.

• MORE THAN MUSIC CYMRU income £73k
• COR MEIBION DE CYMRU - THE SOUTH WALES MALE CHOIR income £195k
• ST EDMUNDSBURY MALE VOICE CHOIR income £42k
• COMMUNITY MUSIC LIMITED income £194k
• MENTER CWM GWENDRAETH ELLI CYFYNGEDIG income £436k
• DISABILITY WALES / ANABLEDD CYMRU income £414k

Side by side with its peers

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