THE BEADWORKERS GUILD

Registered charity 1119734 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Beadworkers Guild is an educational charity. We issue 4 quarterly journals, organise workshops, provide training modules and make our collection available to our members viacascade days held throughout the country.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY AND THE ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL SKILLS OF BEADWORK, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHING IN THE PRACTICE OF BEADWORK AND BY THE COLLECTION, PRESERVATION AND EXHIBITION OF EXAMPLES OF FINE BEADWORK.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,945 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £211,290 to £197,345. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of one year's expenditure, approximately £120,000, and confirm that current free reserves of £197,345 exceed this target. The trustees have assessed the charity's ability to continue as a going concern and found no material uncertainties.

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 5 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06193041

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WIGHTMAN, Susan — director, appointed 10/05/2026not on trustee list
• WAUGH, Brenda — director, appointed 09/05/2026not on trustee list
• HOLMES, Rebecca — director, appointed 10/05/2025on trustee list
• LONGFIELD, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/05/2024on trustee list
• BENDING, Denise — director, appointed 06/05/2023on trustee list
• COWIE, Carole — director, appointed 02/01/2018on trustee list
• MILLARD, Fiona Louise — director, appointed 07/05/2016on trustee list
• CARLTON, Mairi — director, appointed 07/05/2011on trustee list
• ALFORD, Elizabeth Anne, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2011not on trustee list
• FAIRHURST, Sylvia — director, appointed 21/04/2007on trustee list
• ALFORD, Elizabeth Anne, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/04/2011

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carole Cowie
• DR LIZ ALFORD
• Denise Bending
• Fiona Millard
• MAIRI CARLTON
• Rebecca Holmes
• SYLVIA JOYCE ETHEL FAIRHURST
• Sarah Elizabeth Longfield
• Sue Wightman

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD income £167k
• ART WORKERS' GUILD TRUSTEES LTD income £442k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF GUILDS OF WEAVERS, SPINNERS AND DYERS income £315k
• THE MAKERS GUILD IN WALES income £229k
• THE GUILD OF ST GEORGE income £176k
• THE GOLDSMITHS' CRAFT AND DESIGN COUNCIL income £193k

Side by side with its peers

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