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National Dance Company Wales

National Dance Company Wales is a registered charity (number 326227) based in Cardiff, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Alison Thorne since 2022. Latest income £1.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Diversions the Dance Company of Wales (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)

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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, Germany
Website
www.ndcwales.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
National Dance Company Wales
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 75%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES AND IN PARTICULAR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DANCE, MUSIC, AND DRAMA AND MIME.

Grants received

13 grants · £336,573 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

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

2.4y median 1.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12Education/training 2Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 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 14Professional services 4Education 1

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£1.4m latest income
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.

0.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

18 from 32 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
326227
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/10/1982AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/02/2006NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 12/12/2013
Companies House
Company number 01672419 · Active
Contact on the register
02920635606 · info@ndcwales.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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