THE TRAIDCRAFT EXCHANGE

Registered charity 1048752 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRAIDCRAFT, TRAIDCRAFT EXCHANGE, Transform Trade

Traidcraft Exchange trading as Transform Trade are a global community of farmers, workers, collectives, campaigners, donors and supporters, we work together for trade that values people over profit. We partner with people who are fighting for their communities and finding better ways to trade. Wherever possible, the people who are directly experiencing injustice in trade lead our work.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £31,772 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the £544,381 deficit in the prior year. Total income was £3,474,812, while total expenditure was £3,506,584, resulting in a slight underspend against the budgeted income but an overspend against the budgeted expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adamson Richard Nsimba
• Anita Cheria
• DAVID PAIN
• France Villeneuve
• Judith Kirton-Darling
• Karimi Kinoti
• Laurence Sewell · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Kenya · Lambeth · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TRAIDCRAFT FOUNDATION.

• THE TRAIDCRAFT FOUNDATION income £3.5m
• CARETRADE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• TRADE SEXUAL HEALTH income £250k
• TEXTILE REUSE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT income £9.3m
• TRANSFORM TRAINING LTD income £170k
• THE FAIRTRADE FOUNDATION income £13.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.