The Edgeler Collection

Registered charity 1186295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINCHCOMBE ARCHIVE COLLECTION, WINCHCOMBE ARCHIVE COLLECTION TRUST

WE ARE PRIMARILY A CHARITY MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE DUE TO HOLD A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF THE STUDIO SLIPWARES PRODUCED AT WINCHCOMBE POTTERY BY MICHAEL CARDEW & HIS TEAM. A SELECTION OF THESE WILL BE PUT ON PERIODIC DISPLAYS IN BI-ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS TO ALSO INCLUDE ART & COTSWOLDS CRAFTS OF THE 1920S AND 1930S. IN NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES WE WILL ALSO HOLD TALKS SERIES EVERY JUNE GIVEN BY LEADING EXPERTS

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE COLLECTIONS OF CERAMICS, FURNITURE, ART AND ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN ARCHIVE AND COLLECTION WHICH WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND SIMILAR OR RELATED ACTIVITIES

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net incoming resource of £20,826 for the year ended 1 April 2025, resulting in total funds carried forward of £52,038. The document does not disclose any reserves policy or specific unrestricted reserves figure separate from total funds. No material uncertainties or going concern issues are explicitly stated in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Louise Brown
• Lawrence William Osborne
• MATHEW FERRIER ROSE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Merfyn Allden Lloyd

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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