GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY

Registered charity 701399 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q618626 · Wikipedia · also known as SDL, ST DEINIOL'S LIBRARY

Gladstone's residential Library is a resource for theology/spirituality, history/current affairs and literary culture.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF DIVINE LEARNING IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHURCH IN WALES AS HISTORICAL BRANCHES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND IN CONFORMITY TO THE LIVING SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHURCH IN WALES.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RESEARCH, WRITING AND DEBATE ON GLADSTONE'S CORE SUBJECTS: THEOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY, HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS AND CONTEMPORARY AND CLASSICAL LITERARY CULTURE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted and restricted income increased by 15% while total expenditure rose by 10%, resulting in a net decrease in total funds of £6,845. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,011,758, which the trustees note are below their stated policy target of 12 months' expenditure, currently equivalent to 8 months of normal expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 02363642
• Trading subsidiary: GLADSTONE'S LIBRARY SERVICES LTD Companies House 09367236 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Revd. Dr Andrea Russell — Warden (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Heritage Memorial Fund — “Gladstone’s Library is currently undergoing vital restoration and repair work to our unique Grade I listed building thanks to support from t…” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation is kindly supporting Gladstone’s Library’s core costs in 2026/27” (source page)
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation — “Gladstone’s Library has received funding from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to develop and deliver a new two-year engagement program…” (source page)
• The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust — “Gladstone’s Library has received funding from The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust (NMCT) to help conserve 20+bundles of letters link…” (source page)
• Friends of the Nations’ Libraries — “Gladstone’s Library received funding from Friends of the Nations’ Libraries in 2025/26 to help enhance the Glynne-Gladstone Archive.” (source page)
• Flintshire County Council Community Chest — “The new outdoor bicycle rack at Gladstone’s Library was made possible thanks to support from Flintshire County Council’s Community Chest gra…” (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.

• WHYTE, William Hadden, Rev Canon Professor — director, appointed 12/02/2025on trustee list
• WHITAKER, Ian Campbell — director, appointed 04/02/2025on trustee list
• TREVELYAN, Laura Kate — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• SHAKESHAFT, John Charles — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• GLADSTONE, Charles Angus — director, appointed 04/07/2023on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Richard Andrew — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• DERHAM, Patrick — director, appointed 04/07/2022not on trustee list
• COLLINS, Victoria Catherine — director, appointed 18/03/2020on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Owain Llyr — director, appointed 02/01/2013on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Andrea, Rev Dr — secretary, appointed 25/10/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (40% 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: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES ANGUS GLADSTONE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Campbell Whitaker
• John Charles Shakeshaft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Kate Trevelyan · trustee of 1 other charity
• OWAIN LLYR WILLIAMS
• PATRICK SIBLEY JAN DERHAM OBE
• RT REVD GREGORY KENNETH CAMERON
• Rev William Whyte
• Richard Andrew Roberts
• Victoria Collins

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 GLADSTONE CONNECT LIMITED.

• GLADSTONE CONNECT LIMITED income £62k
• GLADSTONE THEATRE TRUST income £386k
• THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST income £14.3m
• GLADSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST income £201k
• GOSPORT CORNERSTONE TRUST income £28k
• BEFORE THE THRONE CHURCH income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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