Gwyl Crime Cymru Festval 2023, Aberystwyth, Report on Outcomes
Attracting a new festival audience
What we did well.
Post-festival questionnaires in 2022 indicated that 42% of our respondents were ‘very likely’ to come to a physical festival in 2023. When allowing for the well-recognised statistical skew to the positive in those who respond to questionnaires, we had anticipated that this result might indicate that somewhere in the region of 20% of those who attended online would actually come to Aberystwyth, with a significant boost in numbers from people in the area who had not accessed our online festivals.
Online ticket bookings (tickets were offered free) for 2022 resulted in 2268 people watching our livestreamed events. 20% of that total would be 452 and we hoped to double that number which would have taken us to just over 900 ticket sales. In the event, ticket sales were a slightly disappointing 786.
However, given that the cost of living crisis has erupted since our last festival, we felt that our ticket sales were largely in line with those of other, more established festivals, all of whom reported drop-offs in sales during the same period.
Our target audience for our first phyiscal festival was:
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Aspiring writers
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Local people who don’t normally attend literary festivals
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Welsh language audiences
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Crime fans from outside Wales
Ticket bookings for 2021’s online festival were international: 22% from Wales, 47% from the rest of the UK, 30% from the rest of the world (rounded figures.) Figures for 2022 were very similar. As per our targets, we aimed to increase audience share from Aberystwyth, Ceredigion and Wales as a whole while still finding a new audience from outside Wales.
In the event, 48% of 2023’s audience came from Wales (38% from Ceredigion) This means that 52% of our audience came to Aberystwyth specifically for the festival.
In reaching an audience not catered for by other festivals we performed extremely well: 28% of participants had never attended any kind of literary festival before while 57.5% reported that they had never been to a crime fiction festival before.
Though audiences for our Welsh language events appeared small, when the relative sizes of the potential Welsh and English-speaking audiences are taken into consideration, they were very respectable. We would, however, like to see numbers rise in 2025.
Statistics show that the average crime reader is over 55 and female. Though 57% of our audience was over 55, we feel that reaching an audience where 43% were younger than average was a huge success and is reaching a new audience for crime fiction in Wales.
Audience satisfaction was very high. When participants were asked to rate events on a 1-5 scale (1 = weak, 5 = excellent) 92.5% of events were ranked 5, 6.5% 4 and only 1% rated at a 3.
What didn’t go so well.
Because of late confirmation of a large part of our funding, much of our programming and publicity work was begun far later than we would have liked. With funding secured for our next two physical festivals in 2025 and 2027, we will be able to begin our publicity and marketing in a more timely fashion. We are also looking to build on the social networks we have made, locally, next time by better liaison with partner organisations, targetted posters and local advertising as well as our network of volunteers and supporters.
We also feel that perhaps we pitched some of our ticket prices too high and we will take this into consideration at the next physical festival in 2025.
Legacy
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 was the first in a biennial cycle of festivals which will see online festivals reaching an international audience for Welsh crime fiction in evennumbered years, and physical festivals in Aberystwyth both catering for Welsh audiences and bringing visitors into our country in odd-numbered years. We hope that the 2025 festival will build on the excellent start we’ve made this year.
Audience engagement
How did it go, what did we learn?
Our audience feedback questionnaires asked our audiences to make any comments, good or bad, about the festival. They were exclusively complimentary. Here are some examples:
An utterly brilliant festival!
A great opportunity to laugh, have fun and share ideas - great, thank you An excellent festival. Very well organised. A lovely friendly atmosphere. Relaxed, informal and very informative.
Attending alone and very happy with friendliness of volunteers and other attendees. Makes a real difference.
Excellent. One of the best author events I've attended. An excellent and entertaining festival, thank you Excellent location, special atmosphere!
We had a wonderful time at the festival. Everyone was so friendly and helpful. It was well organised, locations easy to get to. It was great to meet the authors in person, interesting discussions. A lot of fun & laughter. Thank you to everyone involved for all your hard work. We will return in 2025!
Well organised, super friendly, very welcoming. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The festival was extremely well organised, the panel events first rate.
Well organised, wide range of topics and really interesting discussions. A very entertaining weekend. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one!
We learned that our instinct that the personal touch, and easy access to authors for our audiences was just what people wanted. Our feeling, being a bunch of crime writers who’ve attended numerous festivals, was that we didn’t want Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival to be a ‘stuffy’ event that keeps its speakers on the stage and the audience on the floor. We wanted to convey a sense that we were all in this together, that all authors start out as readers so there isn’t a ‘them and us’ just ‘us’. And our audiences have absolutely confirmed that they like this approach.
The Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum is a wonderful venue but it is a little labyrinthine and the Waterstones pop-up bookshop would have done better if it hadn’t been tucked away at the back of the building. We need to give consideration to how we imrove this next time.
We only entered into partnership working with the National Library and the Ceredigion Archives very late in the day when they came to us asking if they could be part of the festival in some way. Now that we have established links with them we will take full advantage of the expertise of their staff and the wonderful facilities that they offer.
The addition of a murder mystery to our gala quiz night was very popular and we have already agreed with the Wardens theatre group that we will run a similar event in 2025.
Partnerships and collaborations
Our partnerships with our venues, Llyfrgell Aberystwyth Library and Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum worked extremely well and this was a significant contributory factor to the success of the festival. The in-house catering team in the Coliseum Café at the museum produced all the canapes for the two cabaret-style events which we held on Friday and Saturday nights and having all the components of these evenings – bar, food and entertainment – all managed centrally was a huge advantage.
The archivists at the Library, as well as suggesting running an event with us on the use of archives for writers, also produced a wonderful town trail pamphleet on Crime, Punishment and Protests which visitors could use to guide themselves on informative walks around Aberystwyth to see the sites of various local incidents and read about them. Nothing was too much trouble for the excellent staff at the Aberystwyth Library who contributed significantly to the intimate and relaxed feeling that so many audience members commented on.
The National Library approached the GCCF organising committee in January to suggest a partnership, which was a huge compliment, and together, we ran an event in which Fflur Dafydd and one of the archivists conducted a behind-the-scenes tour of the Library with Fflur speaking about and reading from her book The Library Suicides which is set inside the National Library. This event was a sell-out and we very much hope that this will be the beginning of a fruitful partnership with the National Library.
Through the good auspices of one of our organising committee, based in Aberystwyth, we established a relationship with a bar near our two venues which became the ‘festival bar’ and which developed five cocktails named after books by members of Crime Cymru. These proved so popular with festival-goers that the ingredients for at least one were exhausted by the end of the festival!
Our partnership with Waterstones was hugely successful with not only the pop-up bookshop in the museum but window displays and advertising in the shop for a week before the festival and a fortnight afterwards. The manager, Chloe Tilson, who is a member of the festival organising committee also arranged a children and young people’s writing competition which was advertised through local schools and which proved very popular.
Our links with local community groups need to be further developed but one significant partnership was with the Wardens amateur dramatic group who worked with a member of the organising committee to develop and perform a murder mystery play which was presented as part of the entertainment for our gala quiz night on Friday. This was extremely popular and had provided us with links to other groups in town that we can now pursue in 2025.
In 2025 we hope to make more use of contacts at the University and to do some partnership working with the Aberystwyth Arts Centre as well as continuing to work with the National Library and our current partners.
Budget
Given that the organising committee of Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 had little or no experience of running such an ambitious festival, a great number of assumptions and estimates had to be made in terms of budgeting. This means that we over-budgetted and under spent. However, given the ongoing nature of the project (that is to say, 2023 was an inaugural festival in a proposed permanent biennial cycle) we have consulted our major funders at the Welsh Government and they have agreed that a proportion of the grant they had agreed for this year’s festival can be used a) to run the next digital festival in 2024,which acts as an online marketing tool for the 2025 festival, and b) to employ a freelance festival organiser for 2025. This will take the enormous burden of administration away from the organising committee which is entirely composed of volunteers and who are unable to continue to commit the time and energy necessary to run an international festival as it detracts from their own writing.
Letter received from Chloe Tilson, manager of Waterstones Aberystwyth, festival partner.
Dear Gwyl Crime Cymru festival committee,
Congratulations on your first in situ Welsh International Crime Writing Festival! It really was a wonderful event and I have heard nothing but praise for the atmosphere and how smoothly and efficiently it ran. A remarkable achievement for not only a first festival but one involving multiple sites and a program which allowed only 15 minutes between panels. The
success clearly stemmed from both the careful months of planning, with each of you contributing valuable skills and experience, and how well you worked together throughout the weekend, all mucking in where needed. This collaborative approach, with its notable lack of ego created something very special that made The Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival stand out in people’s minds and hearts, and created a solid foundation for future events.
My team, and the wider Waterstones community in Wales and beyond is very proud to be a sponsor for the Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival. Not only is the festival an exciting addition to the Crime Writing Calendar but also an innovative and important development in creating a strong Welsh literary identity and market at home and on the International stage. It shines a light on our nation’s literary talents to inspire audiences and nurtures talent through interactions which will be remembered by many for years to come.
In the buildup to the festival we enjoyed hosting Gwyl Crime Cymru authors in our stores for events. While predominately hosted by our Welsh stores it was also satisfying to see Welsh authors showcased in English stores too. Alis’ event in Waterstones Oxford bought a Welsh author, with a Welsh central Character and Welsh culture to a completely new audience. Following the festival, we also sent a selection of Welsh crime authors titles to the Bristol Crime Festival.
The wealth of publishing available to us for the Pop up store meant that we had around 150 different titles and over 70 authors represented, in Welsh and English. During the festival weekend in addition to sales we distributed information to customers, publishers and booksellers from Wales, Scotland, England and Ireland, and a host of International visitors including Italian, German, French, Canadian and American visitors. Some visitors stayed in Aber for Sunday night and Monday visiting our shop to express thanks and joy for their experience.
Increased weekend sales from the Pop up and main store totalled in the region of 4k. Notably 40 out of 50 of our crime sales titles that weekend were Gwyl Crime Cymru members and festival panellists. A report showing crime authors selling 3 or more copies during that weekend was dominated by the festival representing 29 of the top 30 titles. This demonstrates how our team focused on these authors not only at the festival pop up store but in our main store where we had a large focus table and windows. Additionally, there were significant rises in the sale of Welsh Crime which was featured in all our Welsh stores windows and front of store with our specially designed POS [point of sale] posters and table headers. Post festival our feature table continued for 2 weeks and we now have a large number of Welsh Crime authors in our Crime section and included on our crime tables. Our Children’s window featured titles to tie in with the Dragon Parade and the Children’s Crime Writing competition posters. We had three age categories and the fantastic winners were announced by Children’s authors Chris Lynch and Sarah Todd Taylor during the festival and shared on our social media. The 3 winners each won a wonderful afternoon tea at local restaurant Medina’s with authors Caryl Lewis and Sarah Todd Taylor where they chatted happily all afternoon about their entries, writing and tips for the future. It was wonderful to see how excited and interested these young people were to learn all they could!
Two publishing houses, local press Honno and Canelo have communicated to us that they are now actively scouting for Welsh Crime Writing talent as a result of the festival, and a Scottish Bookseller relayed they will stock Welsh Crime Writing in future.
In 2025, I hope we can build upon this year’s success and with early targeted marketing we can double our audience figures and book sales. I believe this is realistic and achievable target which will begin to make the festival not only influential but to make real beneficial financial impacts. This year’s Literary cocktails designed for us by Y Banera were a huge hit, and appreciated by this small hospitality business after a difficult few years. I am sure that they and other local businesses will be keen to work with us in the future.
We aimed to have as planet, community, and inclusive friendly a festival as possible, and our waste for the entire weekend fitted into one small wastepaper bag of recyclable paper! All our promotion materials were either paper or digital. Our teams highlighted the online events to those unable to attend in person and offered assistance with booking for those unfamiliar with online booking, ordered titles and to got signed copies for anyone requiring them. Our transportation had very limited environmental impacts as stock was delivered alongside standard deliveries, we only had a 5 min journey to the festival site and rather than return excess stock we have retained it at our local store to sell. Our transportation to the site was provided by a local charity to whom we made a donation.
Post festival we continue to be committed and distribute [Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival] bookmarks for customers to check out your website and sign up for the mailing list ready for future events! We are also looking forward to future community events with many of the authors we have met during the weekend. I have put forward suggestions for promotions including our Welsh Book of the Month for Gwyl Crime Cymru authors and these have been received well.
We can’t wait to be part of the next festival and would like to thank you all for making us feel so welcome and inspired at this year’s event.
Diolch Yn fawr iawn!
Chloe
GCCF Bank Reconciliation October 2022 - October 2023
| 36,450.22 | 35,269.09 | 3,817.27 | |||||||||
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| TransaDate | Type | Descripton | Paid in | Paid Out | Balance | Type 1 | Amount 1 | Type 2 | Amount 2 | ||
| 10/30/2021 | Opening Balance | 4,543.53 | |||||||||
| 27 | 12/19/2022 | Automated Credit | ACW Lotery AC | 9,000.00 | 13,543.53 | Unrestricted Funds | 9000.00 | ||||
| 28 | 2/22/2023 | Online Transacton | Prontapriont Swansea | 354.00 | 13,189.53 | Printed Materials | -261.12 | Feedback Questonnaire | -92.88 | ||
| 29 | 3/6/2023 | Debit Card Transacto | Mail Chimp | 26.77 | 13,162.76 | Marketng Expense | -26.77 | ||||
| 30 | 3/14/2023 | Debit Card Transacto | The clever baggers - Tote bags | 381.60 | 12,781.16 | Author Packs | -381.60 | ||||
| 31 | 3/15/2023 | Online Transacton | Acoo Review - Lanyards | 731.00 | 12,050.16 | Lanyards, IDs, Steward | T | -731.00 | |||
| 32 | 3/16/2023 | Online Transacton | Am Clothing - T shirts | 1,268.40 | 10,781.76 | Lanyards, IDs, Steward | T | -1268.40 | |||
| 33 | 3/17/2023 | Automated Credit | Welsh Government | 7,500.00 | 18,281.76 | Unrestricted Funds | 7500.00 | ||||
| 34 | 3/20/2023 | Online Transacton | Gail Williams - Admin role | 780.00 | 17,501.76 | Organiser Fees | -780.00 | ||||
| 35 | 3/22/2023 | Automated Credit | HMRC | 174.89 | 17,676.65 | Unrestricted Funds | 174.89 | ||||
| 36 | 3/24/2023 | Automated Credit | Welsh Government | 7,500.00 | 25,176.65 | Unrestricted Funds | 7500.00 | ||||
| 37 | 3/27/2023 | Debit Card Transacto | Wipeout Creatons - Hiviz | 75.00 | 25,101.65 | Lanyards, IDs, Steward | T | -75.00 | |||
| 38 | 3/29/2023 | Online Transacton | Gail Williams - Admin role 2 | 1,000.00 | 24,101.65 | Organiser Fees | -1000.00 | ||||
| 39 | 3/29/2023 | Online Transacton | Gail Williams - Admin role 2 | 261.00 | 23,840.65 | Organiser Fees | -261.00 | ||||
| 40 | 3/31/2023 | Online Transacton | Hiscock Insurance (paid via GB Williams) | 147.06 | 23,693.59 | Insurance | -147.06 | ||||
| 41 | 4/3/2023 | Online Transacton | Crime Cymru (GBW Sib) | 30.00 | 23,663.59 | Organiser Fees | -30.00 | ||||
| 42 | 4/5/2023 | Online Transacton | Vistaprint - banners (paid via Gail Williams) | 439.53 | 23,224.06 | Organiser Fees | -439.53 | ||||
| 43 | 4/5/2023 | Debit Card Transacto | Mail Chimp | 26.04 | 23,198.02 | Marketng Expense | -26.04 | ||||
| 44 | 4/19/2023 | Online Transacton | Prontaprint (via GB Williams) | 428.88 | 22,769.14 | Printed Materials | -428.88 | ||||
| 45 | 4/24/2023 | Online Transacton | Mark Ellis (refund of Waterstones payment for Author Packs) | 900.00 | 21,869.14 | Author Packs | -900.00 | ||||
| 46 | 4/24/2023 | Online Transacton | Mark Ellis (refund of Waterstones payment for Author Packs) | 203.38 | 21,665.76 | Author Packs | -203.38 | ||||
| 47 | 4/25/2023 | Online Transacton | Alis Hawkins | 639.50 | 21,026.26 | Speaker Fee | -400.00 | Commitee Accom/travel | -239.50 | ||
| 48 | 5/4/2022 | Automated Credit | Ticketsource | 6,228.58 | 27,254.84 | Ticket Sales | 6228.58 | ||||
| 49 | 4/26/2023 | Online Transacton | Broo Doherty | 230.00 | 27,024.84 | Speaker Fee | -100.00 | Speaker Accom | -130.00 | ||
| 50 | 4/26/2023 | Online Transacton | Sarah Ward | 330.00 | 26,694.84 | Speaker Fee | -200.00 | Speaker Accom | -130.00 | ||
| 51 | 4/27/2023 | Online Transacton | Mark Ellis | 520.50 | 26,174.34 | Speaker Fee | -100.00 | Commitee Accom/travel | -420.50 | ||
| 52 | 4/26/2023 | Online Transacton | Katherine Stansfeld | 560.00 | 25,614.34 | Speaker Fee | -300.00 | Speaker Accom | -260.00 | ||
| 53 | 4/26/2023 | Online Transacton | Penny Batchelor | 50.00 | 25,564.34 | Speaker Fee | -50.00 | ||||
| 54 | 4/26/2023 | Online Transacton | Trevor Wood | 100.00 | 25,464.34 | Speaker Fee | -100.00 | ||||
| 55 | 4/27/2023 | Online Transacton | Louise Mumford | 528.29 | 24,936.05 | Speaker Fee | -300.00 | Commitee Accom/travel | -228.29 |
GCCF Funds and Expense Account 2022-2023
Cashbook
| RECEIPTS | RECEIPTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Descripton | Type | Paid in |
| 10/30/2021 | Opening Balance | 4,543.53 | |
| 12/19/2022 | ACW Lotery AC | Unrestricted income | 9,000.00 |
| 3/17/2023 | Welsh Government | Unrestricted income | 7,500.00 |
| 3/22/2023 | HMRC | Unrestricted income | 174.89 |
| 3/24/2023 | Welsh Government | Unrestricted income | 7,500.00 |
| 5/4/2022 | Ticketsource | Ticket Sales | 6,228.58 |
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5/16/2023 Sarah Ward Speaker Fee 330.00
5/18/2023 FP Return 16/05/23 Speaker Fee 230.00
5/26/2023 Penelope Jenkins Speaker Fee 50.00
5/26/2023 Mark Ellis Author Gifts 50.00
5/31/2023 Ticketsource Ticket Sales 189.22
6/26/2023 ACW Lottery AC Restricted Funds 654.00
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36,450.22
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| PAYMENTS | |||||
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| Date | Descripton | Type | Paid in | Balance | |
| 4,543.53 | |||||
| 13,543.53 | |||||
| 2/22/2023 | Prontapriont Swansea | Printed Materials / Feedback Questonnaire | 354.00 | 13,189.53 | |
| 3/6/2023 | Mail Chimp | Marketng Expense | 26.77 | 20,662.76 | |
| 3/14/2023 | The clever baggers - Tote bags | Author Packs | 381.60 | 20,456.05 | |
| 3/15/2023 | Acoo Review - Lanyards | Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-Shrits | 731.00 | 27,225.05 | |
| 3/16/2023 | Am Clothing - T shirts | Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-Shrits | 1,268.40 | 25,956.65 | |
| 3/20/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role | Organiser Fees | 780.00 | 25,176.65 | |
| 3/27/2023 | Wipeout Creatons - Hiviz | Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-Shrits | 75.00 | 25,101.65 | |
| 3/29/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 2 | Organiser Fees | 1,000.00 | 24,101.65 | |
| 3/29/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 2 | Organiser Fees | 261.00 | 23,840.65 | |
| 3/31/2023 | Hiscock Insurance (paid via GB Williams) | Insurance | 147.06 | 23,693.59 | |
| 4/3/2023 | Crime Cymru (GBW Sib) | Organiser Fees | 30.00 | 23,663.59 | |
| 4/5/2023 | Vistaprint - banners (paid via Gail Williams) | Organiser Fees | 439.53 | 23,224.06 | |
| 4/5/2023 | Mail Chimp | Marketng Expense | 26.04 | 23,198.02 | |
| 4/19/2023 | Prontaprint (via GB Williams) | Printed Materials | 428.88 | 22,769.14 | |
| 4/24/2023 | Mark Ellis (refund of Waterstones payment for Author Gifs) | Author Packs | 900.00 | 21,869.14 | |
| 4/24/2023 | Mark Ellis (refund of Waterstones payment for Author Gifs) | Author Packs | 203.38 | 21,665.76 | |
| 4/25/2023 | Alis Hawkins | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 639.50 | 21,026.26 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Broo Doherty | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 20,796.26 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Sarah Ward | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 20,466.26 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Mark Ellis | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 520.50 | 19,945.76 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Katherine Stansfeld | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 560.00 | 19,385.76 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Penny Batchelor | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 19,335.76 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Trevor Wood | Speaker Fee | 100.00 | 19,235.76 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Louise Mumford | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 528.29 | 18,707.47 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Krystyna Green | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 18,477.47 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Alison Layland | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 18,147.47 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Ben Aaronovich | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 250.00 | 17,897.47 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Ceredigion County Council | Venue Hire | 3,498.70 | 14,398.77 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Chloe Tilson | Sundries | 94.64 | 14,304.13 | |
| 4/27/2023 | Mat Johnson | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 14,074.13 | |
| 5/5/2023 | Mail Chimp | Marketng Expense | 25.67 | 20,277.04 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Louise Mumford | Sundries | 31.08 | 20,245.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Barry Forshaw | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 19,915.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Chris Lloyd | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 632.00 | 19,283.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Douglas Skelton | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 18,953.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Sarah Hughes | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 18,723.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Alis Hawkins | Commitee Accom/travel | 60.00 | 18,663.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | John Alwyn Grifths | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 18,433.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Nia Roberts | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 18,203.96 | |
| 5/9/2023 | Sean Gibbons | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 17,973.96 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Beverley Roberts | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 420.00 | 17,553.96 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 4 | Organiser Fees | 360.00 | 17,193.96 | |
| 5/10/2023 | GB Williams | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 700.50 | 16,493.46 | |
| 4/26/2023 | Sarah Ward | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 16,163.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Caryl | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 516.00 | 15,647.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Jon Gower | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 15,317.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 5 | Organiser Fees | 324.00 | 14,993.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Barry Ryan | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 14,763.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 3 | Organiser Fees | 984.00 | 13,779.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Meleri Joyce | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 13,549.46 | |
| 5/10/2023 | Evonne Wareham | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 13,524.46 | |
| 5/11/2023 | Caro Ramsay | Speaker Fee | 100.00 | 13,424.46 | |
| 5/11/2023 | GB Williams | Commitee Accom/travel | 60.00 | 13,364.46 | |
| 5/11/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 8 | Sundries | 81.60 | 13,282.86 | |
| 5/11/2023 | Sion Williams (producton Manager) | Tech equip and video | 2,185.00 | 11,097.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Alun Davies | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 460.00 | 10,637.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Zoe Sharp | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 250.00 | 10,387.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Gerald Scase | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 10,362.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Penny Batchelor | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 10,312.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | David Penny | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 10,082.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Mary Grand | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 10,057.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Gwenllian Parrot | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 9,727.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Caroline Jones | Commitee Accom/travel | 60.00 | 9,667.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Sarah Todd-Taylor | Speaker Fee | 200.00 | 9,467.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | M Christopher Lynch | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 9,237.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | W John Phil Rowlands | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 9,212.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Clare Mackintosh | Speaker Fee | 198.00 | 9,014.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Gwyneth Steddy | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 8,989.86 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Caroline Jones | Speaker Fee / Commitee Accom/travel | 470.50 | 8,519.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | G Williams | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 8,494.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Ffur Dafydd | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 620.00 | 7,874.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Winifred Davies | Speaker Fee | 100.00 | 7,774.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Jacueline Harret | Speaker Fee | 25.00 | 7,749.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Caro Ramsay | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 7,519.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Mari Hannah | Speaker Fee | 120.00 | 7,399.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Myfanwy Alexander | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 7,169.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | coliseumcofeehouse | Evening Event | 1,600.00 | 5,569.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Rod Green | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 5,339.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | James Oswald | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 5,009.36 | |
| 5/15/2023 | Emma L Fitzpatrick | Speaker Fee | 115.75 | 4,893.61 | |
| 5/16/2023 | Rubbernecker | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 4,993.61 | |
| 5/16/2023 | Bethany Davies | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 460.00 | 4,763.61 | |
| 5/16/2023 | Sara Elin Roberts | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 4,533.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | Jacky Collins | Accommodaton | 186.00 | 4,347.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | Mark Edwards | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 228.00 | 4,119.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | Graham Miller | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 330.00 | 3,789.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 6 | Organiser Fees | 828.00 | 2,961.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 7 | Organiser Fees | 660.00 | 2,301.61 | |
| 5/22/2023 | The Wardens | Evening Event | 110.00 | 2,191.61 | |
| 5/23/2023 | Four Tails | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 483.50 | 1,708.11 | |
| 5/24/2023 | Belinda Bauer | Speaker Fee / Speaker Accom | 230.00 | 1,478.11 | |
| 5/24/2023 | Ruth Burke | Podcaster | 518.70 | 959.41 | |
| 1,009.41 | |||||
| 1,059.41 | |||||
| 5/30/2023 | Gail Williams - Admin role 9 | Organiser Fees | 492.00 | 567.41 | |
| 5/30/2023 | Mark Ellis | Travel Expenses | 29.50 | 537.91 | |
| 727.13 | |||||
| 6/26/2023 | Alex Hawley | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 1,331.13 | |
| 6/26/2023 | Paul Gitsham | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 1,281.13 | |
| 6/26/2023 | Nell Patnson (as E Margaret Ruth Pa) | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 1,231.13 | |
| Malc Williams | Speaker Fee | 50.00 | 1,181.13 | ||
| 1,181.13 | |||||
| 35,269.09 |
Charity Commission Receipts and Payments Account 2022-2023
| A1 Reciepts Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Ticket sales A2 Assets and investment sales None A3 Payments Author Packs Commitee Accom/travel Evening Event Feedback Questonnaire Insurance Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-Shrits Marketng Expense Organiser Fees Podcaster Printed Materials Speaker Accom Speaker Fee Sundries Tech equip and video Venue Hire A4 Assets and investment Purchases None B1 Cash Funds B2 Other Monetry Assets None B3 Investment Assets None |
Unrestricted Funds Restricted funds Endowment Funds Total Funds 28,718 28,718 654 654 6,418 6,418 |
|---|---|
| 35,136 654 - 35,790 | |
| - - - - | |
| 1,435 1,435 2,542 2,542 1,710 1,710 93 93 147 147 2,074 2,074 78 78 6,159 6,159 519 519 690 690 4,964 4,964 7,653 654 8,307 207 207 2,185 2,185 3,499 3,499 |
|
| 33,955 654 - 34,609 | |
| - - - - | |
| 1,181 - - 1,181 | |
| 1,181 - - 1,181 | |
| - - - - | |
| - - - - | |
| - - - - |
B4 Assets retained for the Charity's own use None
B5 Liabilities
None
GCCF Profit and Loss Statement 2022-2023
Income
| Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds Ticket sales Total Income Expenses Author Packs Commitee Accom/travel Evening Event Feedback Questonnaire Insurance Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-Shrits Marketng Expense Organiser Fees Podcaster Printed Materials Speaker Accom Speaker Fee Sundries Tech equip and video Venue Hire Total Expenditure Overall Total |
28,718.42 654.00 6,417.80 |
|---|---|
| 35,790.22 | |
| 1,434.98 2,541.79 1,710.00 92.88 147.06 2,074.40 78.48 6,158.53 518.70 690.00 4,964.00 8,307.25 207.32 2,185.00 3,498.70 |
|
| 34,609.09 | |
| 1,181.13 |
From: Cheryl Rees-Prlce