THE HERITAGE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1159208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5738786 · Wikipedia · also known as HCA, Heritage Crafts

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL AND HERITAGE CRAFTS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVICE AND TRAINING.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL AND HERITAGE CRAFTS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVICE AND TRAINING.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income increased to £294,065, driven by unexpected donations, while unrestricted expenditure rose to £198,724, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £317,290 exceed the stated policy target of twelve months' core expenditure, indicating a stable financial position despite acknowledged risks regarding future funding and rising costs.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Goldsmiths' Foundation — “Five-day Passementerie Masterclass with Jessica Light @jessica_light_, the ‘Tassel Queen of Bethnal Green’ – supported by @goldsmithsfoundat…” (source page)
• Soane Britain — “#matchMAKER is the online platform for work-based training and entry-level employment opportunities hosted by @heritagecrafts and supported …” (source page)
• Lucy and Laurence Butcher — “We are delighted to announce our expert judging panel for this year’s Emerging Metalworker of the Year Award supported by Lucy and Laurence …” (source page)
• The Leathersellers — “We are delighted to announce our expert judging panel for this year’s Emerging Leatherworker of the Year Award supported by the @theleathers…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Jan Lillie
• Daahir Ahmed Mohamed
• David Cowling Clarke
• Dr Alison Robinson Canham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Louise Jhita
• Jennifer Chen
• Jo Sealy
• Jonathan Daniel Reid
• Michael Osbaldeston · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicola Duncan-Finn
• Robert Murray
• Simon Eli Sadinsky-Heisler

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

• THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
• HERITAGE ASSEMBLY income £106k
• THE HARGREAVES FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE I S A CHARITY income £52k
• THE SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY income £515k
• HADLEIGH FARMERS' AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £323k

Side by side with its peers

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