MAKE Southwest
Registered charity 296568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEVON GUILD OF CRAFTSMEN
MAKE Southwest is dedicated to enriching lives through Making and Craft. As an education charity it engages with communities and young people to provide learning opportunities through outreach, exhibitions, and workshops. For Makers it offers professional development, help with reducing environmental impact and showcasing their work.
Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £57,389 for the year, primarily due to the expenditure of National Lottery Heritage Fund grants. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains strong unrestricted reserves of £190,254, which the trustees consider adequate to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Management fees paid to MAKE Southwest by The David Canter Memorial Fund
“The David Canter Memorial Fund, a charity for which MAKE Southwest holds sole trusteeship, made no repayments during the period (2025: £3,500) and no purchases (2025: £1,000) for management fees to MAKE Southwest.” — page 41
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- LUXTON, Katherine — director, appointed 05/08/2025on trustee list
- SHORTLAND-POTTER, Susan — director, appointed 09/11/2024on trustee list
- HAMPSHIRE, Camilla Susan — director, appointed 12/12/2023on trustee list
- ALCOCK, Andrew — director, appointed 20/06/2023on trustee list
- SUTCLIFFE, Ashton-Marie — director, appointed 06/06/2023on trustee list
- LEA, Michael David — director, appointed 14/06/2022on trustee list
- GREENWOOD, Gillian Patricia Ellerby, Mrs. — director, appointed 21/07/2021on trustee list
- NORTH, Andrew Richard — director, appointed 12/11/2020on trustee list
- DEANE, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 12/11/2020on trustee list
- WASLEY, Laura — secretary, appointed 10/01/2020
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)
Cost of raising funds
£92k
Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).
- Andrew North
- Ashton-Marie Sutcliffe
- Camilla Hampshire
- David Andrew Alcock · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dr Natasha Kidd
- Gillian Greenwood
- Jane Deane
- Katherine Luxton
- MICHAEL DAVID LEA · trustee of 3 other charities
- Susan Shortland-Potter
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Gloucestershire · Somerset · Wiltshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is MAKE Southwest financially healthy?
Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £57,389 for the year, primarily due to the expenditure of National Lottery Heritage Fund grants. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains strong unrestricted reserves of £190,254, which the trustees consider adequate to continue as a going concern. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds MAKE Southwest?
Funders whose own accounts filings name MAKE Southwest as a grant recipient include THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND, The Ashley Family Foundation, DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST, MISSES BARRIE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE GOLSONCOTT FOUNDATION.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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