WOODCRAFT FOLK

Registered charity 1148195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039791 (OSCR)

Established in 1925 now throughout the UK, running co-educational groups of children and young people. Aims to build a sustainable world, on rights, equality, friendship, peace & co-operation. Tries to educate and empower children and young people to be able to participate in society, improving their lives and others through active citizenship, whilst supporting and training adult volunteers.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £53,185 for the year, primarily due to investment in charitable activity for the centenary event Camp 100. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves stood at £489,077, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet reasonably foreseeable future needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Woodcraft Folk (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edmund Moriartychair
• Alexander Thompson
• Ashley Harker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eedie Baker-Thompson
• Esmerelda Thompson
• Huw Hickman
• Ian Brown
• Joe Flannagan
• Joseph Bailey
• Larry Goodwin
• Nancy Hawker
• Paul Nolan-Paley
• Rowena Marsh
• Ruth Doak
• Stella Azurdia-Fraser
• Tamsin Pearce

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION.

• SMALL WOODS ASSOCIATION income £1.7m
• WOODLAND HERITAGE LIMITED income £1.5m
• HANDCRAFTED PROJECTS income £2.3m
• FOLK CAMPS SOCIETY LIMITED income £128k
• FRIENDS OF THE HURTWOOD income £155k
• FOREST SCHOOL CAMPS income £471k

Side by side with its peers

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