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Registered charity (CIO) · Cardiff

Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £6.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science and 4 more
Where
Throughout Wales
Website
www.eisteddfod.cymru (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.7m£6.5m
  • 2024£8.5m£7.7m
  • 2022£7.0m£6.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.5m£1.7m
  • 2020£2.8m£1.5m
Charitable objects

WELSH TEXT:(1) HYRWYDDO ADDYSG Y CYHOEDD YN NHREFTADAETH A DIWYLLIANT CYMRU, Y GWYDDORAU A’R IAITH GYMRAEG; A(2) HYRWYDDO, CADW A DIOGELU TREFTADAETH A DIWYLLIANT CYMRU A’R IAITH GYMRAEG, DRWY UNRHYW DDULL A MODD A WÊL YR YMDDIRIEDOLWYR YN DDA YN CYNNWYS TRWY GYNNAL GWYL GENEDLAETHOL YN FLYNYDDOL, SEF EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU.ENGLISH TEXT:(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN WELSH HERITAGE AND CULTURE, THE SCIENCES AND THE WELSH LANGUAGE; AND(2) TO ADVANCE, PRESERVE AND SAFEGUARD WELSH HERITAGE AND CULTURE AND THE WELSH LANGUAGE, BY ANY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT INCLUDING THE HOLDING OF AN ANNUAL NATIONAL FESTIVAL, NAMELY THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD OF WALES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

11 trustees on the board

4y median 6y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11Religious Activities 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 2

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

Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£6.7m 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.

8.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.7 in 2020

13 from 14 in 2020
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
1155539
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 29 Jan 2014
Contact on the register
03454090300 · peter@eisteddfod.cymru
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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