THE LONDON WELSH CENTRE TRUST

Registered charity 232672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON WELSH TRUST LIMITED

To provide an educational and cultural centre in or near London to promote the knowledge and use of the welsh language, through educational means; and promote culture and education (e.g. literature, art, music, history, science) particularly relating to Wales and the Welsh people, but not exclusively, for the benefit of the public.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE AN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTRE IN OR NEAR TO LONDON TO: (A) PROMOTE THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE WELSH LANGUAGE BY EDUCATIONAL (EXCLUDING POLITICAL) MEANS;(B) PROMOTE THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF WELSH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, MUSIC, HISTORY, ART, SCIENCE AND ANY OTHER SUBJECTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL OR CULTURAL NATURE; AND(C) CARRY OUT ANY OTHER PURPOSE OF AN EDUCATIONAL OR CULTURAL NATURE WHICH IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC’.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a deficit of £43,260 for the year ended August 2025, with total income of £564,957 against expenditure of £608,217. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £163,302, which is equivalent to 3.2 months of expenditure, while the charity is planning a significant fundraising campaign to ensure future stability.

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 5 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
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (71% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD SAUNDERSchair
• Carwyn Cowell
• DAVID DANIEL
• Gareth David Headon
• Hannah Roberts · trustee of 4 other charities
• Paul Wright
• Peter Allen
• Rhiannon George-Carey
• Richard Williams
• Susan Elan Jones · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WELSH SCHOOLS TRUST LIMITED.

• THE WELSH SCHOOLS TRUST LIMITED income £227k
• THE LONDON READING CENTRE income £104k
• Y COLEG CYMRAEG CENEDLAETHOL income £11.0m
• EISTEDDFOD GENEDLAETHOL CYMRU income £6.7m
• YMDDIRIEDOLAETH NANT GWRTHEYRN income £2.0m
• THE LOWRY CENTRE TRUST income £30.5m

Side by side with its peers

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