Blaina Reading Institute and Library Charity Fund

The Trust is to be used for the benefit of the inhabitants of Blaina in the following ways.(a) The relief of the aged,poor and impotent.(b) The relief of distress and sickness.(c) The improving of the conditions of life for the inhabitants socially and recreationally.(d) The provision and support of educational facilities.

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

In Wales

• Throughout Wales

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

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

The register has no income or spending figures for this charity.

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

About the same: £1,567 in the year to 30 June 2022, against £1,560 in the year to 30 June 2021.

Spending against income

It spent 0% of its income in the year to 30 June 2022. It spent less than its income in each of the 2 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.

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5 trustees run the charity.

• Brynley HowellsChair
• Alan Robert Thomas
• Councillor Gillian Mary WatkinsAppointed 20 May 2014
• Mr Alun Lewis
• Trevor John Edwards

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, 2 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

524327

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

11 March 1965

Governing document

SCHEME OF 20 JUNE 1979

Council area of its contact address

Blaenau Gwent

• 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.

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