Dolgellau Institute (Known Locally as the Free Library)

The provision and maintenance of an institute for the inhabitants of Dolgellau and the neighbourhood thereof, without distinction of political, religious or other opinions, including use for meetings, lectures and classes and other forms of recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the condition of life for the said inhabitants.

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

In Wales

• Gwynedd

Area of benefit in its governing document: Dolgellau and the Neighbourhood

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £34,005 and spent £43,501.

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 44%, from £60,943 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £34,005 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 128% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 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 March 2025: £29,385 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.

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.

9 trustees run the charity.

• Bob GuntonAppointed 5 May 2015
• Branwen Rhys DafyddAppointed 8 March 2016
• Dyfrig Siencyn Siencyn
• Heilyn Williams
• Jo CheckleyAppointed 27 May 2014
• John CadwaladrAppointed 3 December 2012
• Nia SmithAppointed 1 April 2021
• Sion EdwardsAppointed 5 April 2022
• Ywain MyfyrAppointed 2 June 2015

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

514712

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

20 January 1984

Governing document

SCHEME DATED 14 NOVEMBER 1983 AS AFFECTED BY S16 ORDER DATED 29 JUNE 1999

Council area of its contact address

Gwynedd

• 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: Gwynedd Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Gwynedd's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Gwynedd Maldwyn
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Bangor Conwy Môn