The Abergavenny Local History Society

To advance the public education in the history and culture of Abergavenny and surrounding area in particular by supporting Abergavenny Museum and Castle. Projects include our blue plaques trail, guided walks, town centre street survey, oral history, publication of books and a DVD. We organise lectures and visits programmes, give talks and give grants to local school children and students.

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

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Abergavenny and the Surrounding Area

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £18,601 and spent £20,730.

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

Up 320%, from £4,426 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £18,601 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 111% of its income in the year to 31 December 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 December 2025: Not reported. 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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 5 payments to this charity worth £816 between 3 December 2021 and 16 October 2025.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Richard Francis OldingChairAppointed 12 May 2021
• Dai Morgan
• Dr CHRISTINA MACIEJEWSKIAppointed 22 May 2022
• Helen Jean Morgan
• Jane Lisle White
• Janet CormackAppointed 30 March 2017
• Janet Louise PatrickAppointed 21 May 2015
• Jeanette Butt
• Kenneth Andrew KeyAppointed 21 May 2015
• Marian Senior
• Richard Langford-JohnsonAppointed 22 May 2022

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

1098582

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

16 July 2003

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23/06/2003AS AMENDED ON 17/05/2012

Website

www.abergavennylocalhistorysociety.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• 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.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

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

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