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Registered charity · Pontypridd

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £21m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Cardiff
Website
www.rwcmd.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Limited
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£21m£19m
  • 2024£22m£20m
  • 2023£19m£20m
Earlier years
  • 2022£17m£18m
  • 2021£15m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

4.1 THE COLLEGE SHALL BE SET UP AND CONDUCTED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.4.2 THE OBJECT OF THE COLLEGE SPECIFIED IN ARTICLE 4.1 ABOVE SHALL IN PARTICULAR AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY THEREOF INCLUDE:4.2.1 THE TRAINING OF PERFORMERS AND OTHERS IN MUSIC, DRAMA, THEATRE AND OTHER PERFORMING ARTS INTENDING TO ENTER OR ENGAGED IN THE MUSIC, THEATRICAL AND PERFORMING ARTS PROFESSIONS;4.2.2 THE PROVISION OF ADVANCED COURSES OF INSTRUCTION LEADING TO THE AWARD OF DEGREES OR OTHER APPROPRIATE QUALIFICATIONS; AND4.2.3 THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE FACILITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.

Grants received

18 grants · £432,356 total

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.3y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (3)

14
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 16Arts/culture/heritage/science 15Amateur Sport 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 24Arts and leisure 4Professional services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£20.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

13.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.5 in 2021

256 from 181 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1139282
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/01/2015
Companies House
Company number 06013744 · Active
Contact on the register
01443654171 · william.callaway@southwales.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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