Write, ring, or come for tea.
The trust’s registered office is the kitchen of one of the trustees, on a slate-fronted terrace in Deiniolen. There is no separate building, no waiting room, and no answerphone. The best way to reach us is by post or email; we read every message ourselves.
9 Deiniol Road.
DEINIOLEN TRUST FUND9 Deiniol Road
Deiniolen
Caernarfon, Gwynedd
LL55 3LL
Registered charity 219993 · Scheme of 22 May 1980
Email & phone.
- General enquiries
[email protected] - Donations
[email protected] - Press & media
[email protected] - Phone
+44 (0)7818 285 049
Office hours.
The trust does not keep an office in the usual sense — there is no walk-in front desk, no reception. The numbers below are when one of the trustees is most likely to be at home with the post:
- Office hours · Mon–Fri · 09.00–17.00 (best for email and phone)
- Diwrnod y Cyhoedd · first Saturday in June · 14.00–16.30 (no appointment needed; please come)
- Carol Service · third Saturday in December · 19.30–21.00 (Capel Bethel)
Find us on the map.
The map below shows the trust’s registered office in Deiniolen, between Llyn Padarn to the south-east and the village high street to the north. The Memorial Hall, where most of our board meetings take place, is a five-minute walk south.
Write to us.
The form below sends a short message to the four trustees. We will reply by email within three working days; longer in school holidays, when we are sometimes away from the post.
When the post arrives, and what happens next.
Three images from a typical Tuesday at 9 Deiniol Road — the post on the mat, the writing desk by the window, and the door knocker, with its small engraved plaque.
Post on the mat.
Marina collects the mat at about a quarter to nine; the post is sorted onto two piles — Trust and household — before the kettle goes on.
The writing desk.
Replies are written here, on the printed letterhead, in fountain-pen ink. We aim to acknowledge every letter within seven working days.
The front door.
The enamel name-plate beside the knocker is the only signage the trust has. It was put up in 2014.
What to expect when you write.
An acknowledgement, by return post or email, within seven working days. A reading of your letter by the next trustee on rota. If your letter is an application, an indication of which of the two annual board meetings it will be considered at. If your letter is an enquiry, a short reply from the trustee who reads it. We do not have an out-of-office message; we do not have an inbox auto-reply; we do not, as a rule, reply at the weekend or in school holidays. We always reply.
A short note on language.
We reply in the language of the original. If you write in Welsh, we reply in Welsh; if you write in English, we reply in English. If you write in a mix (which several of our older villagers do), we reply in a mix. We do not, under any circumstance, switch the language of correspondence without checking first. The four trustees can each work in either language; Carys, our volunteer translator, helps where the register needs to shift between dialect and formal Cymraeg.
Seven working days is the promise. Most letters get a reply on the Tuesday they arrive. From the November 2025 AGM notes