LLENYDDIAETH CYMRU - LITERATURE WALES

Registered charity 1146560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

LITERATURE WALES SUPPORTS WELSH WRITERS THROUGHOUT THEIR JOURNEY. WE DO THIS BY OFFERING CREATIVE WRITING COURSES, BURSARIES, MENTORING, AND TRAINING. WE GET WRITERS INTO SCHOOLS, ONTO FESTIVAL STAGES, AND INTO WELSH COMMUNITIES. WE ALSO PARTNER WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS OR FUND OTHERS TO BRING IDEAS TO LIFE, AND STRIVE TO MAKE SURE WALES' LITERARY SCENE REFLECTS THE RICH DIVERSITY OF THE NATION.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a stable financial position despite reporting a net expenditure for the year, which trustees describe as a deliberate effort to reduce unrestricted funds to a target level. Free/unrestricted reserves stand at £231,196, and the charity has diversified its income sources to reduce reliance on public funding.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit, Business and Tax Advisors. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Amazon Literary Partnership — “Amazon Literary Partnership” (source page)
• Arts & Business Cymru — “Arts & Business Cymru” (source page)
• Arts Council of Wales — “Arts Council of Wales” (source page)
• Ashley Family Foundation — “Ashley Family Foundation” (source page)
• Books Council of Wales — “Books Council of Wales” (source page)
• British Council Wales — “British Council Wales” (source page)
• Cardiff University School of Welsh — “Cardiff University School of Welsh” (source page)
• Cardiff University School of English, Philosophy & Communications — “Cardiff University School of English, Philosophy & Communications” (source page)
• Cronfa Elw Park-Jones — “Cronfa Elw Park-Jones” (source page)
• The Fenton Arts Trust — “The Fenton Arts Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Dimmickchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Casi Dylan
• Dr Asma Shahin Khan
• Glyn Alfred Owen Tansley
• Joanne Doyle
• Margiad Eckstein
• Nasir Adam
• Paul Butterworth
• Professor Charlotte Hold
• Professor Martin Willis
• Sioned William

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION.

• THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION income £1.0m
• THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND income £4.3m
• CYNGOR LLYFRAU CYMRU-THE BOOKS COUNCIL OF WALES income £7.5m
• THE ENGLISH AND MEDIA CENTRE income £706k
• TEAM COLLECTIVE CYMRU CHARITY income £446k
• WJEC CBAC LIMITED income £66.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.