WELSH NATIONAL OPERA LIMITED
Activities
As described by the charity on the register
The company engages in all aspects of staging opera and educational activity together with a wide range of related activities including concerts, broadcasts, recordings and publications.
Latest income
£18.0m
Expenditure
£18.3m
Financial year end
2025-08-31
Income & spending history
As reported to the Charity Commission, by financial year end
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-31 | £13.7m | £11.9m | |
| 2022-08-31 | £18.2m | £20.2m | |
| 2023-08-31 | £18.2m | £20.7m | |
| 2024-08-31 | £18.3m | £20.6m | |
| 2025-08-31 | £18.0m | £18.3m |
Latest detailed return
Year end 2025-08-31 · consolidated (group) figures
Income mix
| Donations & legacies | £2.8m |
| Charitable activities | £1.9m |
| Trading | £3.0m |
| Investment income | £390k |
| Total income | £18.0m |
Spending
| Charitable spend | £15.4m |
| Raising funds | £176k |
| Grants to institutions | £0 |
| Governance | £4k |
| Total expenditure | £18.3m |
Balance sheet
| Reserves | £7.0m |
| Total funds | £17.4m |
| — restricted | £2.9m |
| — unrestricted | £10.3m |
| — endowment | £4.2m |
| Total assets | £17.4m |
| Cash | £4.0m |
People
| Employees | 232 |
Classification
The charity's own register classification
What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who it helps
- The General Public/mankind
How it works
- Other Charitable Activities
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales register, 2026-07-28. Detailed figures as filed in the charity's annual return. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.