ENSEMBLE CYMRU

Registered charity 1090316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ensemble Cymru is a professional orchestral ensemble which brings chamber music informed by Welsh culture, history and heritage to communities and schools across Wales including areas facing socio-economic deprivation.

Objects

ADDYSGU'R CYHOEDD, YN BENNAF OND NID YN UNIG YNG NGHYMRU, I WERTHFAWROGI MWYNHAU A DEALL CELFYDDYD A GWYDDOR CERDDORIAETH A'R CELFYDDYDAU PERFFORMIO.THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN WALES, IN THE APPRECIATION ENJOYMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MUSIC AND THE PERFORMING ARTS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £45,776 for the year, driven by an exceptional legacy gift of £74,699. However, excluding this one-off income, the charity operated with an underlying deficit of £28,923. The trustees note the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA JANE PEMBERTONchair
• ADRIAN BARSBY
• Alun Rhys Prytherch
• Philip Roger Brooks
• Samantha Jayne Butler

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEAM COLLECTIVE CYMRU CHARITY.

• TEAM COLLECTIVE CYMRU CHARITY income £446k
• SINFONIA CYMRU income £469k
• CREU CYMRU income £206k
• THE WELSH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LIMITED income £99k
• ARTS & BUSINESS CYMRU income £437k
• WINCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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