Gladstone's Library

Gladstone's residential Library is a resource for theology/spirituality, history/current affairs and literary culture.

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

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2024, it had income of £1,502,266 and spent £1,537,701.

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 12%, from £1,347,245 in the year to 31 December 2020 to £1,502,266 in the year to 31 December 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 102% of its income in the year to 31 December 2024. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

National manuscript NMCT grant gave £5,950 in the year to 31 December 2024, 0% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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 2024: 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity named 2 funders who gave £6,828 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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 4 grants to this charity since 2003, worth at least £370,783.

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.

Public bodies' published spending shows 2 payments to this charity worth £146,900 between 19 July 2021 and 13 September 2021.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Charles Angus Gladstone
• Ian Campbell WhitakerAppointed 4 February 2025
• John Charles ShakeshaftAppointed 1 September 2024
• Laura Kate TrevelyanAppointed 21 October 2024
• Owain Llyr WilliamsAppointed 2 January 2013
• Patrick Sibley Jan Derham OBEAppointed 5 September 2012
• Rev William WhyteAppointed 12 February 2025
• Richard Andrew RobertsAppointed 1 July 2023
• RT Revd Gregory Kenneth Cameron
• Victoria CollinsAppointed 18 March 2020

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

701399

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

6 April 1989

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/03/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/09/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/04/2015

Company number

02363642This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.gladstoneslibrary.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Flintshire

• 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 on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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