THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FURNITURE MAKERS' CHARITABLE FUNDS INCORPORATING THE FURNISHING TRADES BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1015519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIT, FREDERICK PARKER COLLECTION, FURNISHING INDUSTRY TRUST, FURNISHING TRADES BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, THE FURNITURE MAKERS COMPANY, THE FURNISHING INDUSTRY’S CHARITY, THE FURNITURE MAKERS' COMPANY

Promote, encourage and foster the craft and industry of furnishing and furniture and its ancilliary activities in the United Kingdom,Advance education in the industry.Relieve financial hardship of present and past employees of the Industry, their families, relatives and dependants.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY FOR ANY PERSONS EMPLOYED OR WHO HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED IN THE FURNISHING OR ALLIED TRADES AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND OTHER RELATIVES AND DEPENDANTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF NEEDY CHILDREN OR ORPHANS OF SUCH EMPLOYEES OR FORMER EMPLOYEES WHO ARE PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEM

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains no financial data, narrative, or accounts for the charity. It consists solely of repeated Docusign envelope identifiers and dates, with no substantive content regarding financial health, reserves, or operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Furniture Makers Company (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~55.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 45.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Heinrich Sigismund von der Heydechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Amanda Jane Waring · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benedict Burbidge
• Charles Vernon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hugh Charles Garforth-Bles
• hayden davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• jonathan Hindle

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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