A small gift in a small currency.
No gift is too modest for Deiniolen — our average grant in 2025 was £345; our smallest was £40. Every pound you give will be added to our 2026 grant pot and disbursed by the four trustees at the January and July board meetings.
Donations to DEINIOLEN TRUST FUND are pooled with our small annual income (rents, deposits, occasional legacies) and given out, in full, by the trustees in the year they arrive. We hold no reserves above a small operating buffer; we are not investing your gift. If you would prefer to give by standing order, by cheque to 9 Deiniol Road, or by leaving a legacy in your will, write to us and we will reply by post.
Make a gift now.
This form is a demonstration on a static website. No card details are sent or stored anywhere — pressing the button shows a thank-you message and resets the form. To make a real donation, please write to [email protected] or send a cheque payable to DEINIOLEN TRUST FUND to 9 Deiniol Road, Deiniolen, Caernarfon, LL55 3LL.
Other ways to give.
- By cheque — payable to DEINIOLEN TRUST FUND, sent to 9 Deiniol Road, Deiniolen, Caernarfon, LL55 3LL.
- By standing order — write to us and we will send a Gift Aid declaration and standing-order form by return.
- In your will — write to [email protected] and one of the trustees will reply with our charity-number details and recommended wording.
- The honesty-jar — a glazed earthenware jar on the kitchen dresser at 9 Deiniol Road. Drop coins in any Tuesday between 09.00 and 17.00.
What your gift will fund.
A £15 gift is roughly an Eisteddfod entry fee under Lle i Ddysgu. A £40 gift is a school-trip coach fare. £120 is a fuel-card top-up under Llaw i’r Aelwyd, or one year of Welsh-language children’s books for the cylch meithrin. We will let you know, in our quarterly dispatch, where the money went — by programme, not by name.
Three other ways to give, in pictures.
The donation form on the right is a demonstration; real gifts come in by post, by standing order, or — most often, in Deiniolen — by a coin dropped into a glazed jar on a slate windowsill.
Cronfa’r Pentref.
The glazed earthenware jar on the dresser at 9 Deiniol Road. Drop a coin in any Tuesday between 09.00 and 17.00. We empty it twice a year.
A cheque, by hand.
Payable to DEINIOLEN TRUST FUND at 9 Deiniol Road, Deiniolen, LL55 3LL. We bank cheques weekly.
By standing order.
Write and we will send a standing-order form by return — most regular donors give £5 or £10 a month.
Where £15 actually went, last year.
We list below the six 2025 grants under £40 — the size of gift the £15 column on the donation form is sized around. None of these would have happened without the small recurring gifts we receive each quarter.
- £40 — Urdd Eisteddfod set-text book (Tomos, age 14, Clwt-y-bont).
- £40 — Chapel flowers, funeral, March (Galar a Gwellhad).
- £35 — Eisteddfod entry fee (Year 8 child, Ysgol Brynrefail).
- £30 — Welsh-language children’s book bundle, cylch meithrin (annual top-up).
- £25 — Coach fare to school trip, Year 5 (Ysgol Gwaun Gynfi).
- £20 — A pair of school trousers, mid-term replacement.
Leaving a small gift in your will.
Two or three of our largest gifts each decade are legacies — small bequests from villagers who have moved away, or from former trustees, or from people who simply put us in their will after a single afternoon at the Diwrnod y Cyhoedd. We do not run a legacy campaign and we do not have a giving brochure; if you would like to discuss a legacy gift, write to [email protected] and one of the trustees will reply with our recommended wording.
