KNITTING AND CROCHET GUILD

Registered charity 1113468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE KNITTING AND CROCHET GUILD

To advance public knowledge & appreciation of the crafts of knitting & crochet, to further skills in knitting & crochet and to preserve our collection of domestically produced knitted and crocheted items together with tools, publications and other artefacts.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF THE CRAFTS OF KNITTING AND CROCHET PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE FURTHERANCE OF SKILL AND CREATIVITY IN THE SAID CRAFTS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE HERITAGE OF KNITTING AND CROCHET

Area of benefit: 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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a surplus on unrestricted funds of £21,000 and held free funds of £128,178, which is well above the trustees' assessed minimum requirement of £45,000. The trustees confirm that resources are sufficient to continue operations for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ailsa Louise Stephen
• Angharad Thomas
• Gillian Laurence
• Maureen Wheeler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicole Hawkesford
• Patricia Helen Basham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Ann Ryan
• Sarah Ann Whitelaw · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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