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The Welshpool Civic Society was created in 1971 to promote sympathetic planning, conservation and regeneration in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, but became inactive in 1980.

The Methodist Church is organised as a single Connexion, with an annual Conference, subdivided into Districts and Circuits of individual chapels. The name Welseyan Methodism is used to distinguish the church from Calvinistic Methodism (now the Presbyterian Church in Wales); the prefix Welsh denotes the language of preaching. In Wales, English- and Welsh-language Wesleyan churches were administered as separate Districts; each District was administered by a Committee; in 1892 this was re-named the District Synod. The organisation of Wesleyan Methodism in Wales started in 1800, when a Welsh Mission to Welsh speakers was launched, based in Ruthin, Denbighshire, although some chapels pre-date this. The District organisation in Wales has undergone a series of changes in structure and name: a single North Wales District was established in 1803 (Welsh); in 1817, this became the Second Welsh District, the First Welsh District being of English churches; in 1828, the Second Welsh District became the North Wales District again, and in South Wales a First District (English) and Second District (Welsh) were created. In 1860, the Second South Wales District became known as the South Wales District; in 1902 North Wales was divided into First and Second Districts (both Welsh); in the 20th century, these three Welsh Districts became known as the Welsh (Wesleyan) Methodist Connexion. In 1974, they were combined into a single Cymru District, alongside two English districts, for North Wales and South Wales. In 1899, a Welsh Assembly had been formed as a representative body of the three Welsh Districts. In 1974 a Council for Methodism in Wales was created, covering both English and Welsh Districts. The District and Circuit structure is important because many of the records were held by these bodies rather than the individual churches. The Circuit structure was often changed to reflect the levels of activity in an area, leading to many mergers and demergers. In addition to the established Circuits in Wales, there were Missions, some of which developed into Circuits; there were also Circuits of Welsh-language chapels in London, in Liverpool and Manchester, Lancashire, in Hanley, Staffordshire, Leeds, Yorkshire, and in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham.

The Welsh University Education Conference was a series of meetings held in 1915 in London, Cardiff and Shrewsbury, to discuss the short-term financial deficit facing the University and the colleges due to the war and the permanent and sufficient funding of the University and the colleges by the Treasury. This necessitated a radical reorganisation of the University's federal structure to avoid duplication which in turn eventually led to a Royal Commission, (the Haldane Commission), being established since successive meetings of the Conference failed to tackle the fundamental question of reorganisation and the establishing of the Welsh National School of Medicine, (following the generosity of Sir William James Thomas). Further details are in J. Gwynn Williams, The University of Wales 1893-1939 (Cardiff, 1997), chap. IV.