WELSH NATIONAL OPERA LIMITED

Registered charity 221538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WELSH NATIONAL OPERA AND DRAMA COMPANY LIMITED, WNO

The company engages in all aspects of staging opera and educational activity together with a wide range of related activities including concerts, broadcasts, recordings and publications.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group held unrestricted funds of £10.3m and calculated free reserves of £3m, which is above the stated minimum policy target of £1.5m. The Directors report a strong financial position with net incoming resources of £2.74m, supported by cash at bank of £3.99m and fixed asset investments valued at £5.98m.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00454297

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.

• HEMSLEY-COLE, Sarah — director, appointed 20/10/2025on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Louise Catherine — director, appointed 20/10/2025on trustee list
• MAXWELL, Donald — director, appointed 18/12/2023on trustee list
• FEILDING, Harriet — director, appointed 31/10/2023on trustee list
• JONES, Gerallt Pritchard — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Paul Michael — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• MAN, Kenon — director, appointed 30/10/2023on trustee list
• PILLMAN, Annabel Clare — director, appointed 29/07/2022on trustee list
• HUGHES, Medwin, Professor — director, appointed 29/07/2022on trustee list
• MIDHA, Arun Daniel, Dr — director, appointed 29/07/2022on trustee list
• EDWARDS AHIR, Manon Luned — director, appointed 22/10/2019not on trustee list
• LITTLE, Henry Brian — director, appointed 15/02/2019on trustee list
• FEILDING, Harriet — secretary, appointed 30/09/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annabel Clare Pillman
• Donald Maxwell
• Dr ARUN Daniel MIDHA
• Gerallt Pritchard Jones
• Harriet Feilding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henry Little · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenon Man
• LOUISE MITCHELL
• Manon Edwards Ahir
• Paul Michael Hughes
• Professor Medwin Hughes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Jane Hemsley-Cole

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES.

• NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES income £1.4m
• ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA income £26.9m
• THEATR GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU income £1.5m
• NATIONAL OPERA STUDIO income £1.2m
• OPERAGLASS WORKS LTD income £53k
• GARSINGTON OPERA LIMITED income £9.9m

Side by side with its peers

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