MELIN DARON CYF

Registered charity 1194355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a charitable community-based organisation, and are focused on restoring and developing Aberdaron's historic grade II water mill.Our plan is to use the restored asset for educational, tourism and heritage purposes. Our vision is for school-children to grind locally grown corn into flour and bake bread in the adjacent Islyn Bakery, and for visitors to share this experience.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘OBJECTS’) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION OF MELIN DARON TO A WORKING DEMONSTRATION MILL TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY DEVELOPING PEOPLE’S INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE STUDY AND MANAGEMENT OF MILLING IN THE CONTEXT OF LOCAL LLY^N HISTORY AND CULTURE AND BY OPERATING A MUSEUM AND LECTURE FACILITY TO DISPLAY CULTURAL, HISTORIC AND SCIENTIFIC ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased significantly from £76,728 to £277,307, driven by a net income of £200,579 largely from charitable activity grants. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Geraint Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glyn Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Louise Garton Jones
• Shon Stewart Jones
• Stephen Bull

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TOWN MILL TRUST LYME REGIS.

• THE TOWN MILL TRUST LYME REGIS income £244k
• PARNDON MILL income £209k
• CYNON VALLEY MUSEUM TRUST income £165k
• MERCHED Y WAWR income £288k
• DARNALL FA LIMITED income £169k
• DARRAN LAS COMMUNITY BUILDING income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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