THE QUILT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1080218 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Presentation and promotion of quilting, patchwork and textile art exhibitions, seminars and workshops available to the general public at The Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes (the home of the association). The conservation and study of antique and modern quilts in the Association Collection, particularly Welsh heritage pieces. Provision of exhibition and meeting space and facilities for community or

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN RESPECT OF PATCHWORK AND QUILTING IN PARTICULAR AND TEXTILE ART AND CRAFTS IN GENERAL.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £140,237 against total net assets of £185,208. The directors report that finances are in good order and note the receipt of a National Lottery Heritage Award to futureproof the association. However, the filing discloses ongoing concerns regarding building maintenance, specifically a defective flat roof for which insurance coverage was denied.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROL ANN RYLES
• Caroline Malone
• Christine Ann Shercliff
• Sheila Alison Davis

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).