THE GOLDSMITHS CENTRE

Registered charity 1120113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of managed workspace, education and training for the public benefit.The fostering, promotion and expansion of the interest of the public in art,craft,design and artisan skills, particularly, but not exclusively, those pertaining to goldsmithing.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 expenditure of £437,453 for the year, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted funds from £9.8m to £9.4m. While free reserves of £275k are above the trustees' target range of £125k to £175k, the charity relies on annual grants from the Goldsmiths' Foundation, which has provided a letter of support for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julia Balchin — Director (source)
• Richard Reid — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael John Wainwrightchair
• ARTHUR PHILIP ANDREW DRYSDALE
• Alex Monroe
• Arabella Claire Felicity Slinger
• Gaynor Rosemary Andrews
• Jocelyn Robert Skeates
• Rupa Lakha

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

Operates in: City Of London · Islington

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GOLDSMITHS' CRAFT AND DESIGN COUNCIL.

• THE GOLDSMITHS' CRAFT AND DESIGN COUNCIL income £193k
• The Goldsmiths' Foundation income £4.1m
• ART WORKERS' GUILD TRUSTEES LTD income £442k
• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT TRUST income £130k
• THE GOLDSCHMIED CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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