## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date 31st March 2025 Period end date 1st April 2026** **Charity name: Adfer Hanes Cymru** ## **Charity registration number: 1199703** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education for the public**
**benefit in archaeology and history, in**
**particular the archaeological and**
**historical heritage of Cymru/Wales**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Two online meeting, and adhoc phone contact
and emails regarding charity matters
Establishing the ground work and security of a
charity is our current aim based on our
constitution. We have had four major physical
donations to date:
A Victorian Gorse Grinder from a trustee
Documents regarding a landed estate in
Cymru/Wales from a trustee
Currently establishing transferring a landhold of
an archaeological site via two of the trustees to
the charity. This needs legal input and may take
time
A Second World War Lookout tower donated by
ABP, now on display at Taskforce, Cowbridge
(completed transfer 2024)
Secured the listing of an important Second World
War buildingin Barry (2025)| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**0**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **0** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **0** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **0** Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers **0** Other ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference **Establishing a charity is our current aim based on our constitution. We have had four major physical** Summary of the main **donations to date:** Para 1.20 achievements of the charity, **A Victorian Gorse Grinder from a** identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to **trustee** the circumstances of its **Documents regarding a landed estate** beneficiaries and any wider **in Cymru/Wales from a trustee** benefits to society as a whole. **Currently establishing transferring a landhold via two of the trustees to the charity. This needs legal input and may take time, still ongoing A Second World War Lookout tower donated by ABP, was held by a farmer until August 2024 but transferred to be displayed at Cowbridge Taskforce Raised over a £1,000 at our building society account Building a membership base Secured the listing of an important Second World War building in Barry (2025)** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||**General establishing the foundation of**|| ||||**the charity**|| ||Achievements against|Para 1.41||| ||objectives set|||| ||||**0**|| ||Performance of fundraising|||| ||activities against objectives|Para 1.41||| ||set|||| ||||**0**|| ||Investment performance|Para 1.41||| ||against objectives|||| ||||**0**|| ||Other|||| |||||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£1,568 was the balance at our Building**
**Society account**
**The amount raised is consistent with**
**being a small charity, but allows us a little**
**interest**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The amount held at the Building Society**
**account, allows us to develop a reserve**
**for purchasing an archaeological site**| |
Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|
**£1,568**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**0**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**0**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not enough trustee’s in the short term**| |**Additional information (optional)**
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Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatementswhererelevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Will be via donations at present, and**
**memberships**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**allowing to develop a financial fund**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**not being able to raise enough donations**| |Other||**0**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Foundation Constitution (CIO)**| |
Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**11 Eligibility for trusteeship**
11.1 Every charity trustee must be a natural
person.
**11.2 No individual may be appointed as a**
**charity trustee of the CIO:**
**11.2.1 if he or she is under the age of 16**
**years; or**
**11.2.2 if he or she would automatically**
**cease to hold office under the provisions**
**of clause 16.**
**11.3 No one is entitled to act as a charity**
**trustee whether on appointment or on**
**any re-appointment until he or she has**
**expressly acknowledged, in whatever**
**way the charity trustees decide, his or her**
**acceptance of the office of charity**
**trustee.**
**11.4 At least one of the trustees of the**
**CIO must be 18 years of age or over. If**
**there is no trustee aged at least 18 years,**
**the remaining trustees may only act to**
**call a meeting of the charity trustees, or**
**appoint a new charity trustee.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**The two meetings this update 2024/25**
**that we have held, we have still begun the**
**process of asking individuals if they**
**would like to join Adfer Hanes Cymru as a**
**Trustee. with no success**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**0**| ||Para 1.51|**0**| Relationship with any related parties Other **0** ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Adfer Hanes Cymru| |---|---| |
Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1199703| |Charity’s principal address|1 Canon Street
Y Barri
Bro Morgannwg
CF62 7BB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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Karl-James Langford
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held in this capacity|0| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|0| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|0| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---|---| |**Type of**
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**Address**|||| ||**0**||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||0||| ||||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **0** ## **Other optional information** **We are establishing ourselves, operationally. Very limited return information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** Langford FSAScot **Signature(s)** Karl-James Langford FSAScot **Full name(s)** Karl-James **Position (eg Secretary,** Chairman **Chair, etc) Date** 28 July 2026