THE CLOTHWORKERS' FOUNDATION

Registered charity 274100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q63220859

To make grants to UK frontline charities to support projects or programmes in defined areas of need.

Objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE FOUNDATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £11.10 million from £13.05 million in the prior year, driven by a reduction in donations from the sole member. Despite this, the charity maintained strong unrestricted reserves of £129.80 million, significantly exceeding its stated policy target of 7.5% of grant commitments, which the trustees attribute to additional donations received at the end of 2024.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 06/11/2023, 6 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Comic Relief, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, and The Clothworkers Foundation re-launch Tech vs Abuse comicrelief.com · 25/04/2019

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01321952

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Susanna O'Leary — Chair (source)
• Ola Opoosun — Deputy Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Funders for Race Equality Alliance — “Funders for Race Equality Alliance and the IVAR Open & Trusting Initiative are examples of organisations helping us improve our knowledge an…” (source page)
• IVAR Open & Trusting Initiative — “Funders for Race Equality Alliance and the IVAR Open & Trusting Initiative are examples of organisations helping us improve our knowledge an…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CORNISH, Catherine Jane — director, appointed 19/03/2026on trustee list
• EVELYN, Clare Jemma — director, appointed 19/03/2026on trustee list
• SCORDI, Niki — director, appointed 18/03/2025on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Hugo Edward William — director, appointed 18/03/2025on trustee list
• NILES, Meredith — director, appointed 18/03/2025on trustee list
• JONAS, Leslie Peter — director, appointed 28/06/2023on trustee list
• INGHAM CLARK, Frederick Thomas — director, appointed 28/06/2023not on trustee list
• SLIM, Hugo, Dr — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• RIZWAN, Amir — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• PATEL, Dhruv Prashant — director, appointed 30/06/2021on trustee list
• OPOOSUN, Ola — director, appointed 12/02/2021on trustee list
• O'LEARY, Susanna Priestley — director, appointed 11/09/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSANNA PRIESTLEY O'LEARYchair
• Amir Rizwan
• Catherine Jane Cornish
• Clare Jemma Evelyn · trustee of 1 other charity
• DHRUV PRASHANT PATEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Hugo Slim
• Frederick Thomas Ingham Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hugo Edward William Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leslie Peter Jonas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lucy Elizabeth Rawson Dr
• MEREDITH NILES · trustee of 5 other charities
• Niki Scordi · trustee of 1 other charity
• OLA OPOOSUN
• Rachel Helena Schon
• Samantha Claire Grimmett Batt

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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