ENGLISH CERAMIC CIRCLE

Registered charity 1097063 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

lecture programmeexhibitionspublish researchseminarsvisits to museums & collections

Objects

A1. TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF CERAMICS AND ENAMELS MANUFACTURED, DECORATED, OR USED IN THE BRITISH ISLES.2. TO PROMOTE RESEARCH AND STUDY IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO CERAMICS AND ENAMELS MANUFACTURED, DECORATED, OR USED IN THE BRITISH ISLES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL KNOWLEDGE GAINED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM, NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £9,312 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £56,425. The trustees consider this free reserve sufficient to meet medium-term requirements, noting it is comparable to other ceramic societies. The charity has no employees and relies on voluntary income and subscriptions to fund its activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amber Turner
• Barbara Helen Jotham
• Dr Caroline McCafffrey-Howarth
• Dr James Robert Nicholas Peake
• Francesca Rose Boyd
• JACQUI PEARCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• JONATHAN DAVID COOPER GRAY
• Lucy Ann Lead
• ROSEMARY PEMBERTON
• Rebecca Jane Walker
• Simon Spier
• Thomas Smith

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORTHERN CERAMIC SOCIETY.

• THE NORTHERN CERAMIC SOCIETY income £49k
• THE ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCIETY income £121k
• EAST LONDON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CENTRE income £135k
• The Ipswich Ceramic Foundation income £166k
• CONTEMPORARY GLASS SOCIETY income £86k
• ENGLISH CHAMBER CHOIR income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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