Cymdeithas Aberaeron Society

Cymdeithas Aberaeron Society organises activities such as exhibitions, trips, events, lectures and grant-funded projects working in partnership with local groups, schools and the local authority. The collections of photographs, written research material and digital resource such as oral and video histories are available on-line and at our exhibitions.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: Local

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £1,539 and spent £1,101.

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.

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Income over time

Up 15,290%, from £10 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £1,539 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 72% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £46,400, awarded in 2013.

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.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 18 February 2025, Ceredigion

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Cabinet

  Chair's Announcements

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9 trustees run the charity.

• Sian Elizabeth StewartChairAppointed 22 May 2020
• Elinor Ann InghamAppointed 7 January 2026
• Rachel Eliabeth GoodgeAppointed 27 August 2026
• Ronald Phillip DaviesAppointed 16 September 2014
• Sally-Ann HeskethAppointed 17 September 2012
• Sandra Margaret EvansAppointed 13 March 2012
• Sarah Mair JonesAppointed 6 March 2024
• Stephen Phillip DaviesAppointed 6 September 2023
• William Gwyn JonesAppointed 16 September 2020

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

1145491

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

17 January 2012

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION CONVERSIONDATED 29 DEC 2021

Website

www.cymdeithasaberaeron.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

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

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro