NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES
- Charity number
- 525775
- Status
- Registered
- Type
- Other
- Registered
- 21 August 1967
- Latest income
- £22,330,000
- Latest spending
- £17,617,000
- Accounts to
- 31 March 2025
- Address
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES, PENGLAIS, ABERYSTWYTH
What it does
Founded by Royal Charter in 1907, NLW is one of the legal deposit libraries of the UK and has benefited from this status since 1911. Through this privilege, by purchase, donation or legacy it has built up a significant collection specialising in Wales, the Welsh and the other Celtic peoples that includes a wide range of media: books, records, maps, pictures, films & for the benefit of the public.
In the charity's own words, as filed with the Commission.
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About this record
From the Charity Commission's register of England and Wales, republished nightly under the Open Government Licence. The Commission does not regulate Scotland or Northern Ireland, which keep their own registers. Figures are as the charity last filed them, not as audited by us — browse the whole register, including the charities removed from it.