CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS

Registered charity 235914 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q56175409 · Wikipedia · also known as THE BRITISH CRAFTS CENTRE, THE CRAFTS CENTRE OF GREAT BRITAIN

Contemporary Applied Arts (CAA)is committed to promoting the best of British craftmanship.The aim is to educate through series of educational talks and preserve,promote and improve fine craftmanship in Great Britain.In fullfilling these objectives CAA shows the work of the UK's leading talent selected through a rigorous application.

Objects

TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE AND IMPROVE FINE CRAFTSMANSHIP IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £59,240 for the year ended 30 September 2025, an improvement from the prior year's deficit. However, the trustees and independent examiner have identified a material uncertainty regarding going concern, citing uncertainty over whether future cashflows will be sufficient to cover liabilities due to the legacy of the pandemic and constrained revenues.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £25k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID ETON
• HELEN CHRISTINE YARDLEY
• Lucy Helen Thompson
• MARLENE PATRICIA MCKIBBIN

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY.

• THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY income £2.1m
• CRAFTS COUNCIL income £3.6m
• CORNWALL CRAFTS ASSOCIATION income £101k
• TALK ABOUT ART income £41k
• NEW CONTEMPORARIES (1988) LIMITED income £875k
• esea contemporary ltd income £422k

Side by side with its peers

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