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The organisation carries out its purposes by offering lending and reference library services with volunteer library assistants, using the lending collections of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and its own collections; hosting and arranging book clubs, writing groups, craft sessions, and language groups with volunteer and paid leaders;and employing a project worker.

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

In Wales

• Neath Port Talbot

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £5,994 and spent £6,550.

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 86%, from £42,657 in the year to 31 December 2022 to £5,994 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 3 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 2022: £10,765 from 3 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.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £9,906, awarded in 2022.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Martin Paul Locock MAChairAppointed 29 February 2016
• Anthony James HallAppointed 28 July 2020
• Helen Lynne SpeddingAppointed 21 June 2022
• Jennifer Jane Hall BSc MCIfAAppointed 29 February 2016
• Melissa KirbyAppointed 17 January 2026

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

Of the last 4 annual returns that were due, 4 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

1196939

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 December 2021

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 24 NOV 2021

Website

www.gcglibrary.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Neath Port Talbot

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader.
• 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
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Neath Port Talbot Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Neath Port Talbot's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Afan Ogwr Rhondda