ROYAL CAMBRIAN ACADEMY OF ART

Registered charity 219648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Art Gallery and Academy of Artist Members.Free access to in excess of 12 temporary exhibitions per year. With lectures, workshops, master-classes and demonstrations, working with the general public, schools and community groups.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS OF PAINTING, ENGRAVING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE AND OTHER FORMS OF ART BY THE HOLDING OF EXHIBITIONS AND CLASSES AND BY THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OTHER UNDERTAKINGS AS MAY SEEM DESIRABLE IN THE INTERESTS OR ART.

Area of benefit: PRINCIPALITY OF WALES.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £33,226 for the year, reducing total funds to £8,216. The trustees' report notes that the charity faced mounting difficulties in 2025, leading to staff redundancies and temporary closure, though it was saved from permanent closure by a £10,000 grant and other donations. The bank balance was reported as £18,000 in credit in late November 2025 after reduced running costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gilly Thomas
• Jeremy Yates
• John Hedley
• Julian Pitt
• Peter Welford
• Victoria Mercier Macdonald

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.

• THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS income £37.1m
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• ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER-PRINTMAKERS income £123k
• BANKSIDE GALLERY LIMITED income £448k
• THE ROYAL ARTILLERY CENTRE FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT income £104k
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Side by side with its peers

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