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Support the Dictionary and support the language
We need your support to help secure the future of this valuable resource. There are various ways you can do this – most importantly by using the Dictionary and encouraging others to do so, but you can also help by becoming a Friend of the Dictionary. If you wish, you can also show your support by making a donation as explained below.
Friends of the Dictionary
The chief aim of the Friends is to introduce the Dictionary to as wide an audience as possible here in Wales as well as to publicize and promote its use to a global audience. By joining the Friends of the Dictionary you will be helping to safeguard the future of both the Dictionary and the Welsh language itself.
Users can access the Dictionary, both online and by installing our app on a smartphone or tablet, from wherever they happen to be.
Join us and help promote this priceless resource
As a Friend you will receive:
- our annual bilingual newsletter
- an invitation to an annual event
- an opportunity to visit the Dictionary’s offices
- discounts on Dictionary publications
as well as the chance to interact with other Friends and be an ambassador for the Dictionary and its work.
Annual membership fees:
£10 for adults; £5 for pensioners, students and the unemployed.
To join the Friends of the Dictionary please click – JOIN
If you would like to consider making a donation please click –
The next meeting of the Friends
The next meeting will be held on Saturday, 15 June 2024 at 2 o’clock in the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, the Dictionary’s home, next to the National Library in Aberystwyth.
There will be contributions from Professor Mererid Hopwood, President of the Friends, and Professor Ann Parry Owen who will shed light on the history of Thomas Williems’ huge dictionary (1604–7), with an opportunity to see some of the National Library’s manuscripts.
Tea will be provided to finish.
There will be an opportunity to join the Friends during the afternoon.
A warm welcome to all.