Registered charity · Cardiff
Chapter (Cardiff) Limited
- 10 trustees
- Income £3.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Alia IlyasTrustee · since 2025
- Alun Gwynne JonesTrustee · since 2013
- Dela Carmelle Isma AndersonTrustee · since 2025
- Ewan HiltonTrustee · since 2019
- Howl Grace HubbardTrustee · since 2025
- Jane Elizabeth MessihTrustee · since 2025
- Laura Marie WilliamsTrustee · since 2025
- Lauren OrmeTrustee · since 2023
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- Naomi StocksTrustee · since 2023
- Stephen MeadeTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 2 other charities:
- The Makers Guild in Wales · 1 shared trustee
- Taff Wenallt Ministry Area · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Throughout Wales
- Website
- www.chapter.cymru (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Chapter (Cardiff) Limited
- Registered
- 1971
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.6m£3.9m
- 2024£3.6m£3.7m
- 2023£3.2m£3.6m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.2m£3.1m
- 2021£3.4m£2.4m
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE PUBLIC'S EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF AN ARTS CENTRE IN THE CITY OF CARDIFF OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE. IN THIS ARTICLE ?THE ARTS? INCLUDES (BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO) THEATRE, VISUAL AND LIVE ART, FILM, MUSIC, DANCE, LITERATURE AND ALL DIGITAL FORMS OF ART.
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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.
10 trustees on the board
- Alia Ilyas since 2025
- Alun Gwynne Jones since 2013
- Dela Carmelle Isma Anderson since 2025
- Ewan Hilton since 2019
- Howl Grace Hubbard since 2025
- Jane Elizabeth Messih since 2025
- Laura Marie Williams since 2025
- Lauren Orme since 2023
- Naomi Stocks since 2023
- Stephen Meade since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Alun Gwynne Jones since 2013
- Ewan Hilton since 2019
- Stephen Meade since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Alia Ilyas since 2025
- Dela Carmelle Isma Anderson since 2025
- Ewan Hilton since 2019
- Howl Grace Hubbard since 2025
- Jane Elizabeth Messih since 2025
- Laura Marie Williams since 2025
- Lauren Orme since 2023
- Naomi Stocks since 2023
- Stephen Meade since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Alun Gwynne Jones since 2013
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 500813
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 MAR 1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 OCT 1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 JAN 1979AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 AUG 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 NOV 2017
- Companies House
- Company number 01005570 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02920304400 · fundraising@chapter.cymru
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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