CRAFTS COUNCIL

Registered charity 280956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our goal is to make the UK the best place to make, see, collect and learn about contemporary craftOur aims are to:To build a strong economy and infrastructure for contemporary craft To increase and diversify the audience for contemporary craft To champion high quality contemporary craft practice nationally and internationally

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net deficit of £8,000 for the year ended March 2025, with total income of £3.6 million and total expenditure of £3.6 million. Per the trustees' report, free reserves have dropped to £318,000, which is below the stated policy level, though the trustees consider this reasonable to fund property refurbishment and note that social financing has been secured to manage cashflow.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Edward Knellchair
• Anant Sharma
• EDWARD DAVID MATTHEWS-GENTLE
• Ian Krishna Jindal
• Jake Solomon
• Maariyah Siraj Patel
• Majeda Clarke
• Melanie Ngaere Edness Eddy
• Melody Uyanga Uuganbayar
• Richard Hill · trustee of 3 other charities
• Roselind Sinclair MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yasmin Jones-Henry

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED.

• CRAFT CENTRE AND DESIGN GALLERY LIMITED income £114k
• THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT TRUST income £130k
• THE MAKERS GUILD IN WALES income £229k
• CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ARTS income £421k
• THE GOLDSMITHS' CRAFT AND DESIGN COUNCIL income £193k
• CRAFTSPACE income £338k

Side by side with its peers

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