NORWEGIAN CHURCH CARDIFF BAY

Registered charity 1195926 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity manages the incoming Norwegian Church in Cardiff Bay. It focuses on: Heritage - interpreting the rich history of the church since 1868 and its transfer to the existing site in 1992; Arts - running an arts programme; Community - working with local organisations and hosting events; encouraging Norwegian links with Wales.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING THE PERMANENT PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE NORWEGIAN CHURCH CARDIFF BAY AS A HERITAGE CENTRE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CELEBRATING THE SOCIAL, HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC LINKS BETWEEN WALES AND NORWAY;2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY, ITS PEOPLE, CULTURE, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC AND ECONOMIC LIFE AND IN PARTICULAR ITS IMPACT ON THE LIFE OF PEOPLE IN SOUTH WALES AND THE WIDER UNITED KINGDOM.3) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION AND COMMUNITY USE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CARDIFF IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £49,409 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted funds being negative at £61,683. The trustees report that they initiated a restructuring of staff and increased focus on income-generating activities to address these financial losses. Despite the deficit, the trustees express confidence in the charity's future viability and note that the lease for the church premises is expected to be renewed.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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

• Trading subsidiary: NORWEGIAN CHURCH CARDIFF BAY TRADING LTD Companies House 13904906

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Norwegian Church Cardiff Bay (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MARTIN LIONEL REES PRICEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cato Syversen
• Michael John Parkinson
• Philip Hoy

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

Operates in: Cardiff

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORWEGIAN CHURCH.

• THE NORWEGIAN CHURCH income £1.2m
• THE NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST LIMITED income £321k
• HARDWICK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £48k
• NOTTINGHAM CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £91k
• GRACE CHURCH CARDIFF income £90k
• NORTHGATE CHURCH TRUST income £270k

Side by side with its peers

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