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Swansea City Opera & The Opera School Wales

The Opera School (Wales)

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1067651
Status
Registered
Registered
Jan. 22, 1998
Legal form
Charitable company
Area of benefit
Not Defined

Address

Address
RHYDYBERI COTTAGES
MERTHYR CYNOG
BRECON
LD3 9SA

Activities

Swansea City Opera's principal activity is to tour affordable quality opera to under-resourced areas in Wales and the UK. This is supported by outreach and education activity to use opera as a tool to promote economic activity and prevent social exclusion among disadvantaged communities. In recent years the companies' activities have extended to musical heritage of disadvantaged groups.

Objects: (A) To Advance (Anywhere In The World) The Education And Appreciation Of Opera, In Particular, By The Provision Of A School For Young Persons To Provide Instruction In The Theory, Practice, Performance, Production, Presentation, Direction And Composition Of Opera And The Musical Art In All Its Forms; And(b) To Advance (Anywhere In The World) For The Public Benefit The Arts, Culture And Heritage, In Particular But Not Exclusively By Facilitating And Enabling People (Principally, Displaced People) Whose Art, Culture And Heritage Is Under Threat To Create And Make Available To The Public Archives And Records Of Their Cultural And Societal Customs And Practices, Their Oral And Written History And Their Creative And Artistic Endeavours.?

Classification

How
Provides Services
What
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities

Areas of operation

Region
Throughout England And Wales

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Oct. 31, 2024 £66,649 £81,676
Oct. 31, 2023 £104,862 £98,758
Oct. 31, 2022 £86,479 £99,073
Oct. 31, 2021 £39,932 £33,537
Oct. 31, 2020 £31,297 £44,606

Trustees

Name Appointed
Gordon Edward Kilby (Chair) July 31, 2013
Gerald Clement
Julian Meredith Seon Williams