## **ANNUAL REPORT FOR GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL To 31 OCTOBER 2024** 

**NAME:** GWYL CRIME CYMRU FESTIVAL 

## **REGISTRATION NUMBER:** 1196078 

**ADDRESS:** THE PEAR TREE, EGLWYSWRW, CRYMYCH, SA41 3UP 

**TRUSTEES:** ALISON ELIZABETH HAWKINS, SARAH RHIANNON WARD, PHILIP GWYNNE JONES, ROSIE CLAVERTON, LOUISE MUMFORD, BARBARA FRANCES MOORE, MARK ELLIS 

## **STRUCTURE** 

In addition to the trustees, the festival is run by an organising committee. Up to 31 October 2024, the volunteers on the organisation committee were: Philip Gwynne Jones (Chair), Sarah Ward, (Treasurer), Dr Sarah Todd Taylor (Secretary), Dr Jaqui Harrett, Dr Winifrid Davies, Dr  Gwenllian Williams, Dr Jacky Collins, Chloe Tilson. In addition Gail Williams was paid a fee to programme the festival. Three specialist advisers guided the committee on diversity issues. 

Trustees are recruited from the wider Crime Cymru membership and those with an interest in promoting Welsh crime fiction. 




Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival’s aims are to: 

1. Establish a world-class, international crime fiction festival for Wales 

2. Benefit and work with the population of Aberystwyth, home of the festival, and the surrounding area 

3. Further the three founding aims of the Crime Cymru collective: to support writers in and of Wales, to develop new Welsh crime writing talent, to promote Welsh artistic life in & outside Wales. 

4. Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival aims to be inclusive, collaborative, authentic and sustainable. 

Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival runs on a biennial pattern – in odd years a physical festival in Aberystwyth, the festival’s chosen home, and in even years, an online festival which aims to widen the reach of our festival and promote Welsh crime writing and Welsh culture to the four corners of the world via Youtube streaming. 



For the year to 31st October 2024, the charity’s objective was to deliver an online festival which reflected the four aims set out above. 

We delivered eight online events via YouTube involving 22 authors who were paid a nominal fee. Each session was well attended online averaging 80-100 viewers per event. By putting an online event on in the years where there is no physical festival, it allows the charity to continue to promote Welsh crime fiction to support emerging talent without the associated costs involved in producing a live event. 

## **FINANCIAL REVIEW:** 

## Charity Commission Receipts and Payments Account 2023-2024 

|A1 Reciepts<br>Unrestricted Funds<br>Restricted Funds<br>Ticket sales|Unrestricted Funds<br>Restricted funds<br>Endowment Funds<br>Total Funds<br>15,923<br>15,923<br>-<br>-<br>648<br>648|
|---|---|
||16,571<br>-<br>-<br>16,571|



A2 Assets and investment sales 

None 



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- - - 

A3 Payments 

|Author Packs|||
|---|---|---|
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|Commitee Accom/travel|||
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|Evening Event|||
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|Feedback Questonnaire|||
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|Insurance|||
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|Lanyards, IDs, Steward T-|||
|Shrits|-|-|
|Marketng Expense|||
||429|429|
|Organiser Fees|||
||6,000|6,000|
|Podcaster|||
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|Printed Materials|-|-|
|Speaker Accom|-|-|
|Speaker Fee|1,260|1,260|
|Sundries|45|45|
|Tech equip and video|2,418|2,418|
|Venue Hire|||





|A4 Assets and investment Purchases<br>None<br>B1 Cash<br>Funds<br>B2 Other Monetry Assets<br>None<br>B3 Investment Assets<br>None<br>B4 Assets retained for the Charity's own<br>use|-<br>-|
|---|---|
||10,152<br>-<br>-<br>10,152|
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||-<br>-<br>-<br>-|
||6,419<br>-<br>-<br>6,419|
||6,419<br>-<br>-<br>6,419|
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None B5 Liabilites None 

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts 

Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report 

**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival **On accounts for the year** 31[st] October 2024 **Charity no ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) 

**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. 



Independent examiner's statement 

I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: 

- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or 

- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. 

**Signed: Date:** 28/5/25 **Name:** Cheryl Rees-Price **Relevant professional** AAT **qualification(s) or body (if any):** 9-11 Cwmgarw Road **Address:** Brynamman Carmarthenshire SA18 1BY