THE TC FOUNDATION

Registered charity 269430 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q60608025 · also known as THE TEXTILE CONSERVATION CENTRE, THE TEXTILE CONSERVATION CENTRE FOUNDATION, THE TEXTILE CONSERVATION CENTRE LIMITED, THE TEXTILE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC044036 (OSCR)

To promote for the public benefit the conservation, restoration and understanding of textiles;To promote & support training in the conservation of textiles; To support research into methods and techniques for conserving textiles

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION, RESTORATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF TEXTILES AND RELATED OBJECTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: BOOKS, ARCHIVAL MATERIALS AND MODERN MATERIALS OF HISTORIC, CULTURAL OR ARTISTIC VALUE (“TEXTILES AND RELATED OBJECTS”)(2) TO SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF A PERMANENT ORGANISATION TO CO-ORDINATE AND IMPROVE THE KNOWLEDGE, METHODS AND WORKING STANDARDS NEEDED TO RESEARCH, PROTECT AND PRESERVE TEXTILES AND RELATED OBJECTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, AND THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS IN THE CONSERVATION OF TEXTILES AND RELATED OBJECTS.(3) TO SUPPORT OTHER PERSONS AND ORGANISATIONS IN RESEARCH INTO METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR CONSERVING AND RESTORING TEXTILES AND RELATED OBJECTS AND TO PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of £1,470,195, with free unrestricted reserves of £94,681, which the Trustees consider to be in excess of 12 months' running costs. The charity made a surplus for the year and reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MARY MICHELLE BROOKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Inglis
• Fiona Orr
• Julie Fleming Bon · trustee of 1 other charity
• KATIE ANTONIO
• PROFESSOR NICHOLAS PEARCE
• TRICIA BEY

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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• T. A. G. TRUST LTD income £191k
• THE COSTUME SOCIETY income £145k
• THE STROUDWATER TEXTILE TRUST income £34k
• THE TEXTILE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY, ART AND DESIGN OF TEXTILES income £53k
• THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAR MEMORIAL TRUST income £440k
• MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k

Side by side with its peers

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