Bonvilston Reading Room

Local events of a social nature. Hire of the reading room for specific interests ie music, wood-working, photography.

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

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: The Village of Bonvilston and A Radius of 5 Miles Therefrom.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £12,119 and spent £9,679.

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 151%, from £4,827 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £12,119 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 80% 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.

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.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Catherine JonesAppointed 23 March 2026
• Christine Patricia Impey
• Daryl Jones MrAppointed 19 April 2024
• Geoffrey Ernest MitchellAppointed 17 March 2025
• Karl PenalunaAppointed 27 March 2025
• Nicola Strelley HarmerAppointed 12 January 2026
• Paul Stuart Fisher
• Rosemary Fisher

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

502415

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

29 May 1973

Governing document

CONVEYANCE DATED 31 DECEMBER 1948

Website

bonvilstonvillage.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• 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: Vale of Glamorgan Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Vale of Glamorgan's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth