Barmouth Sailors' Institute

Barmouth Sailors' Institute was established in 1890 and is a unique example of a sailors' institute. The reading room is open daily to all members of the public free of charge 7 days a week 0900-1730 hrs. Newspapers & magazines are available for reading and the many photographs and sea charts depict Barmouth's maritime history.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Barmouth, Ty Crwn and Ty Gwyn

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 October 2025, it had income of £4,119 and spent £4,674.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 79%, from £20,006 in the year to 31 October 2021 to £4,119 in the year to 31 October 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 113% of its income in the year to 31 October 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 October 2021: £16,791 from 6 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Trevor RobertsChair
• Helen Joan PalmerAppointed 12 February 2018
• Janet Margaret Griffith
• Paula Ann ThompsonAppointed 12 December 2021
• Rev Benedict Lloyd GriffithAppointed 10 July 2023
• Rev BETH BAILEYAppointed 8 February 2016

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1057490

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 August 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 11 DECEMBER 1995 AS AMENDED 19 FEBRUARY 1996 AND 9 NOVEMBER 1998 AND 1 FEBRUARY 2010. as amended on 10 Feb 2020 as amended on 10 Feb 2020 as amended on 21 Feb 2022

Website

barsailinst.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Gwynedd

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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