Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre

Analysis

Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Swansea. It was registered in January 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre reported income of £18k and spending of £33k, spending 181% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1,394 to £18k (+1226%), an average of +91% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 2453%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Friends of Pontardawe Arts Centre sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wakefield Civic Society (£18k), Crediton Area History and Museum Society (£18k) and Friends of St Matthew's Primary School (£18k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.