Gresford and District Community Library

GDCL provides a venue for local learning/leisure activity with a thriving library at its heart to maintain/develop the pre-existing LA library service within our community. Our Mission is to provide a quality library service, community hub and key outreach services for use by all our inhabitants - children and adults alike - in a safe and welcoming environment: our library, our community.

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

In Wales

• Wrexham

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 5 April 2025, it had income of £23,096 and spent £10,484.

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 16%, from £27,637 in the year to 5 April 2021 to £23,096 in the year to 5 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 45% of its income in the year to 5 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 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 5 April 2025: £13,330 from 2 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £10,000, awarded in 2021.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Andrew Charles BaileyChairAppointed 3 November 2014
• Alexander John MerryAppointed 11 November 2019
• Caroline BerryAppointed 10 November 2025
• Jeanie DunsmuirAppointed 11 May 2017
• Johanna Louise MerryAppointed 11 November 2019
• Mrs A WardAppointed 28 May 2015
• MS Janet JonesAppointed 3 November 2014
• MS Sue BrittonAppointed 3 November 2014

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

1159045

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 November 2014

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19 MAR 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28/10/2014 as amended on 08 Oct 2020

Company number

08948646This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.facebook.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Wrexham

• 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.

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

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