Charity of Sarah Ann Blandy for Village Reading Room and Working Mens Club

General Charitable purpose

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

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: Laleston.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,359 and spent £2,197.

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 121%, from £1,067 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,359 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 93% of its income in the year to 31 December 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.

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.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Rev Roger Thomas PitmanChairAppointed 11 May 2023
• Anthony Robert berrowAppointed 22 October 2022
• briony Jane daviesAppointed 22 October 2022
• cheryl anne greenAppointed 28 October 2022
• James Simon Ashcroft MorganAppointed 28 October 2022
• Rev James Michael LewisAppointed 10 January 2020
• Thomas William greenAppointed 28 October 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

219151

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

18 June 1963

Governing document

U.V. 160 PAGE 103 INDENTURE 4TH OCTOBER, 1910 WILL PROVES 27TH FEBRUARY, 1911, CODICIL DATED 5TH OCTOBER, 1910.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• 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

• OpenCouncil: Bridgend Council's meetings and decisions
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