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.

Objects

The Objects of the charity are, for the public benefit, in Wales and world-wide, the promotion of arts, heritage and culture in particular the literature of Wales in all its forms and languages, and the advancement of education on the subject of literature in Wales in all its forms and languages including but not exclusively by: (a) supporting writers and writing of all forms of literature in the languages of Wales; (b) developing the creative, artistic and literary skills of children and young people; (c) facilitating the use of literature as a form of self-expression amongst the general public, including but not limited to vulnerable people and under-represented communities. Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with Section 7 of the Charity and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07779153

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)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUTTERWORTH, Paul Clive — director, appointed 19/08/2026on trustee list
• TANSLEY, Glyn Alfred Owen — director, appointed 27/08/2025on trustee list
• DOYLE, Joanne — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• WILIAM, Sioned — director, appointed 22/05/2025not on trustee list
• WILLIS, Martin, Professor — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• KHAN, Asma Shahin, Dr — director, appointed 19/08/2024on trustee list
• ECKSTEIN, Margiad — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• ADAM, Nasir — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• HOLD, Charlotte Francesca, Professor — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• DIMMICK, Stephen — director, appointed 23/05/2023on trustee list
• DYLAN, Casi — director, appointed 21/02/2023on trustee list
• LEWIN, Alys — secretary, appointed 05/05/2022

Official officers record.

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.

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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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Dimmickchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carys Mair Bradley-Roberts
• 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

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITERATURE WORKS.

• LITERATURE WORKS income £236k
• WORDSMITH AWARDS income £485k
• LEARNING DISABILITY WALES - ANABLEDD DYSGU CYMRU income £942k
• ISLE OF WIGHT LITERARY FESTIVAL income £155k
• THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND income £4.3m
• LEWES LIVE LITERATURE income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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