Welsh Translation Services
DHCTranslations works in both directions. English policy, consultation, form and patient-information work is drafted into Welsh for bodies operating under the Welsh language standards, and Welsh certificates, court orders, transcripts and correspondence are translated into certified English where an authority in England, Scotland or overseas needs the English text. From £40.
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Certified Translations
For UK Home Office, courts, UK ENIC and global enterprises.
Quote Response
Same-day certified PDF delivery available for most documents ordered before 4pm.
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Compliant With Standards Set By Leading UK Authorities & Professional Bodies
*Authority names are referenced as industry benchmarks of compliance. All official translation orders are processed directly through DHCTranslations.
Welsh document types we translate
Birth certificate
Birth certificate from a Welsh register office, rendered into English for an overseas body.
Marriage certificate
Marriage certificate with its bilingual headings and the register entry number.
Policy and consultation papers
strategies and consultations drafted into Welsh against a standards deadline.
Patient information
NHS Wales leaflets and clinic letters, in either direction as the board needs.
Forms and applications
Application forms rebuilt to match the English layout line for line.
Court order
gorchymyn or judgment translated for a court or tribunal outside Wales.
Degree and transcript
Welsh-medium degrees and transcripts into English for an overseas assessor.
School certificate
TGAU and Safon Uwch results from a Welsh-medium school set out in English.
Passport and ID
identity pages, with names that carry a circumflex copied across intact.
Divorce decree
decree issued in Welsh and translated for a registrar outside Wales.
Police letter
Heddlu correspondence naming the station, the reference and the date.
All document types
browse every Welsh document we handle, from ffurflen to contracts.
Can't find your specific document type?
We translate document types that are not listed here. Send us the document and we will confirm the price before you order: [email protected].
What Welsh translation costs
Certified translations start at £40 per document: from £0.09 per word after the first 400 words into English, and from £0.10 per word for English into another language, with some pairs quoted higher.
Notarisation, where the receiving body asks for it, is quoted separately because it depends on the document and on notary availability.
FCDO apostille is available with our Express Service (usually 6-7 working days) or Urgent Service (usually 3-4 working days). Both are estimates: the real time depends on the document, the language pair and the level of certification, and is confirmed in your quote.
£40
From, per document
£0.09+
Per word after 400, into English
How a Welsh Job Runs: Three Steps
An English policy being translated into Welsh and a Welsh certificate being translated into English take the same three steps, with the terminology settled before any drafting starts.
Send the Source
Upload the English document, or the Welsh original, together with any glossary or bilingual material your organisation already uses.
- The English source, or the Welsh original
- Any existing glossary or house style
- Who will receive the finished file
Approve the Terms and the Quote
A fixed price and a delivery date, and for English into Welsh a term list to sign off before drafting begins.
- Term list for Welsh drafting
- Fixed itemised price
- A delivery date you choose
Receive the Finished File
Bilingual or Welsh-only files laid out like the original, certified only where the recipient asks for certification.
- Layout and tables matched
- Certification on request
- Tracked paper where needed
Welsh into English, and English into Welsh
English into Welsh is checked for terminology: the same term has to read the same way on page one and page forty. Welsh into English is checked line by line against the original, because the office receiving it has only the English to work from.
What a Welsh order includes
- Signed statement of accuracy: the translator's name, signature and date, their CIOL or ITI membership number, our company stamp and our contact details.
- Glossary first: a Welsh job starts with an agreed term list, so one concept reads the same way across every document.
- Mutations kept: treiglad forms and place-name pairs are reproduced as printed rather than normalised into English.
- PDF and post: the certified PDF is emailed at no extra cost; printed copies are optional, by first class or tracked post.
Certified for
Prices are per document and start at £40 — see what a translation costs.
Both directions, and the names on the paper
Welsh has official status in Wales, so the work runs both ways: English policy and patient information drafted into Welsh, and Welsh certificates or court orders rendered into English where a body outside Wales has to act on them. The table sets the records a file usually contains against their English names.
Birth certificate
- On the Welsh document
- tystysgrif geni
Marriage certificate
- On the Welsh document
- tystysgrif priodas
Death certificate
- On the Welsh document
- tystysgrif marwolaeth
Statutory notice
- On the Welsh document
- hysbysiad statudol
Application form
- On the Welsh document
- ffurflen gais
Policy or strategy
- On the Welsh document
- polisi neu strategaeth
These are the names a Welsh certificate or public document carries, set against the English a receiving office will recognise. The same table works in both directions, because the work on this page runs both ways.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for Home Office applications, court-ready Statements of Truth and UK ENIC submissions.
“The leaflet went into Welsh alongside the English, and the clinical terms matched the health board's own glossary rather than being invented.”
Eleri H.
“My tystysgrif geni was Welsh-only, and the English version carried the mutated form of the place name exactly as the registrar printed it.”
Dafydd R.
“The order went to a tribunal in England, and the certified English text kept the case number and the judge's name in the order the original used.”
Carys M.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Welsh documents sent from anywhere in the UK. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations works in both directions, from English into Welsh for public bodies, their suppliers and bilingual campaigns, and from Welsh into English for certificates, court orders and academic records. Work starts from a scan or an editable source and comes back as a PDF, certified where the recipient asks for certification.
Welsh documents are quoted from £40 per document, and longer files from £0.09 per word into English. English into Welsh starts at £0.10 per word once the first 400 words are passed, because drafting and checking a new Welsh text takes a pair of linguists.
Short certificates are usually completed the same day when the order and cleared payment arrive before 4pm on a working day. Longer policy sets are scheduled with a delivery date you approve before work starts, and later or weekend orders begin on the next working day.
Usually, yes. UK guidance normally asks for a translation only where a document is not in English or Welsh, so a Welsh original is accepted as it stands. We translate it when the receiving body is outside Wales, when an overseas authority asks for English, or when an office wants an English copy on file; check the current guidance for the route.
Yes, and they are different jobs. English into Welsh is drafting under the language standards with an agreed glossary; Welsh into English is the translation of an existing record, usually certified. They are priced differently, because one is drafting and the other is translating.
Welsh language standards made under the 2011 Measure require bilingual service delivery, policy-making and record-keeping from bodies operating in Wales, and the Commissioner can place them on organisations delivering public services. Suppliers bidding for Welsh public contracts meet the same expectation.
A term list is agreed before drafting and applied to every file in the set, drawing on the client's own bilingual material and the national terminology source where a term is settled. One translator and one checker stay with the job, so a policy, its summary and its form use the same wording.
Mutation changes the opening letter, so Caerdydd may appear as Gaerdydd or Nghaerdydd, and every form is kept as printed. Place names travel as pairs, and older ap or ab patronymics are shown beside the surname the family later took.
No. Scans of each page are enough, including both sides of a certificate and the footer where a registrar signs. Anything certified is produced from the scan, and tracked paper can follow if the receiving office will not work from a PDF.
Yes. Where Welsh and English sit side by side, the version you nominate is treated as the source and the other is checked against it. The certificate records which text was used, which matters when the two columns differ.
Yes. Certificates, court orders, transcripts and official letters in Welsh are translated into English and certified with a signed statement, which is what a court, university or embassy outside Wales asks for. Pricing starts at £40 per document, with files beyond 400 words at £0.09 per word.
Yes. Policies, consultations, forms, patient information, website copy and signage are drafted in Welsh, with terminology agreed first and the register matched to the audience. English into Welsh is quoted from £0.10 per word beyond the first 400 words.
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