The Leathercraft Trust

Registered charity 313056 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MUSEUM OF LEATHERCRAFT

Education in the culture and heritage of leathercarft to the general public by means of curating and exhibiting an extensive and well regarded collection of leather items and archival material relating to the leather industry in Northamptonshire and beyond.

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Latest income

£25k

Latest spending

£44k

Registered

1970

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £16,317 to £13,238 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a reserve policy focused on sufficient cash flow for known commitments and asset replacement. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient cash flow for known commitments, and the replacement of certain assets (held: £13k)

“The current reserve policy is to maintain sufficient cash flow for known commitments, and the replacement of certain assets.” — page 4

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

David Hugh Barrowchair
Associate Professor Gillian Proctor
CAROLINE DARKE
Charles Martin Laurie
Christopher Hasse Angus Marrum
Dr Graham Stuart Lampard
Elizabeth Wheelband
Jack Charles Millington
MARTIN PEBODY
MR BILL AMBERG
Robert Nicholas Tusting
Rosie Bolton
Timothy Christopher Bent

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£25k	£44k
31/12/2023	£100k	£87k
31/12/2022	£81k	£96k
31/12/2021	£134k	£120k
31/12/2020	£123k	£128k

Common questions

Is The Leathercraft Trust financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £16,317 to £13,238 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a reserve policy focused on sufficient cash flow for known commitments and asset replacement. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds The Leathercraft Trust?

Funders whose own accounts filings name The Leathercraft Trust as a grant recipient include DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST, ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSEUMS.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST	FY2022	£5k	Conservation of the Kite Collection
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSEUMS	FY2022	£4k	Consolidation of 16 gilt leather panels. The leather panels are rare and the treatment of them will help inform leather conservation in the future.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/03/2013	£78k	"The Museum of Leathercraft Goes Public"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	09/09/1999	£5k	"This group aims to collect preserve maintain and make publicly accessible a collection of articles made wholly or partly of leather together"