SWANSEA CITY OPERA & THE OPERA SCHOOL WALES

Registered charity 1067651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE OPERA SCHOOL (WALES)

Swansea City Opera's principal activity is to tour affordable quality opera to under-resourced areas in Wales and the UK. This is supported by outreach and education activity to use opera as a tool to promote economic activity and prevent social exclusion among disadvantaged communities. In recent years the companies' activities have extended to musical heritage of disadvantaged groups.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE (ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD) THE EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA, IN PARTICULAR, BY THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG PERSONS TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN THE THEORY, PRACTICE, PERFORMANCE, PRODUCTION, PRESENTATION, DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION OF OPERA AND THE MUSICAL ART IN ALL ITS FORMS; AND(B) TO ADVANCE (ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY FACILITATING AND ENABLING PEOPLE (PRINCIPALLY, DISPLACED PEOPLE) WHOSE ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IS UNDER THREAT TO CREATE AND MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OF THEIR CULTURAL AND SOCIETAL CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES, THEIR ORAL AND WRITTEN HISTORY AND THEIR CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC ENDEAVOURS.?

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a table of contents for the annual report and accounts of Swansea City Opera & The Opera School Wales for the year ended 31 October 2025. It lists sections such as the Directors' Report, Accountants' Report, Statement of Financial Activities, and Balance Sheet, but does not contain the actual financial data or narrative text required to assess financial health.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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 03260797 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• British Council — “In 2019, we were thrilled to be the first Welsh arts organization to be funded by the British Council Cultural Protection Fund .” (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.

• KILBY, Gordon Edward — director, appointed 12/03/2013on trustee list
• CLEMENT, Gerald Glyn — director, appointed 23/02/2009on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Julian Meredith Seon — director, appointed 01/12/2003on trustee list
• GILL, Bridgett Ernestine — secretary, appointed 18/06/2001

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gordon Edward Kilbychair
• GERALD CLEMENT
• JULIAN MEREDITH SEON WILLIAMS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And 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 WEST GREEN HOUSE OPERA LIMITED.

• WEST GREEN HOUSE OPERA LIMITED income £570k
• STREETWISE OPERA income £505k
• ROSE OPERA income £27k
• THE WELSH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £99k
• MUSIC THEATRE WALES income £318k
• MID WALES OPERA LIMITED income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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