RHONDDA ARTS FESTIVAL TREORCHY (RAFT)

Registered charity 1209780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purposes of the charity are to promote and assist in the advancement of the education and the arts including Music, Drama, Dance, Literature, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, the graphic and digital arts, and to extend and increase the public appreciation knowledge and understanding of the arts in all their forms in Rhondda, South Wales

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCE, LITERATURE, POETRY, PAINTING, SCULPTURE, THE GRAPHIC AND DIGITAL ARTS AND TO EXTEND AND INCREASE THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS BY: ORGANISING COMMUNITY EVENTS, TALKS, PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS IN TREORCHY AND THE RHONDDA THAT PROMOTE ARTS, EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT; AND PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE THE ARTS.

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: Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £190 for the period, resulting in total funds of £27,273. Unrestricted reserves stood at £26,073, which the trustees aim to maintain at a level equivalent to three to six months of baseline operational overheads. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner confirming no material matters required attention.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rhian Richardschair
• Emma Watts
• Harriet Fleuriot
• Mark Harvey
• Rhys Slade-Jones
• Tamara Brabon
• Wendy Lewis

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

Operates in: Rhondda Cynon Taff

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THAXTED FESTIVAL FOUNDATION.

• THAXTED FESTIVAL FOUNDATION income £171k
• THE FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER income £32k
• PETWORTH FESTIVAL income £594k
• SYDENHAM ARTS LTD income £34k
• RAWD CIO income £221k
• FREEDOM FESTIVAL ARTS TRUST income £747k

Side by side with its peers

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