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Registered charity · Cardiff

Welsh National Opera Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.wno.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Welsh National Opera Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£18m
  • 2024£18m£21m
  • 2023£18m£21m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£20m
  • 2021£14m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 55%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION SO FAR AS SUCH PROMOTION AND ASSISTANCE SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE, TO PROCURE AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF DRAMATIC ART IN ALL ITS FORMS IN WALES AND ELSEWHERE.

Grants received

17 grants · £9,034,040 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,9002022-11-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £4,000,0002022-10-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £4,000,0002022-10-20
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £40,5752022-09-21
  • John Ellerman Foundation £120,0002021-09-29
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

18y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12General Charitable Purposes 2Education/training 1Religious Activities 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.

Arts and leisure 33Education 8Health and social care 5

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£18.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

4.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.3 in 2021

232 from 231 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
221538
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19/05/1948AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/03/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/10/1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/1978AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/03/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/10/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/04/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/12/2011
Companies House
Company number 00454297 · Active
Contact on the register
02920635000 · katie.shrubb@wno.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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