Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE HERITAGE CRAFTS ASSOCIATION 

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL AND HERITAGE CRAFTS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVICE AND TRAINING.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 9 years

www.heritagecrafts.org.uk

info@heritagecrafts.org.uk

07739690762

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£260£203£57n/an/an/an/an/a16
30/06/22£181£151£30n/an/an/an/an/a8
30/06/21£195£138£57n/an/an/an/an/a8
30/06/20*£102£95£7n/an/an/an/an/a4
30/06/19£82£78£4n/an/an/an/an/a3
30/06/18£106£40£66£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£30£43£-13£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£41£39£2£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£52£42£10£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 16 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Dulverton Trust£44,809
The Pilgrim Trust£44,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Heritage Crafts Association
£29,000 08/12/2023
New Horizons for Endangered Crafts: funds will be used to cover the salary and overheads of one staff member to conduct desk-based and field research, and the cost of two research symposia to bring ....more
Dulverton Trust - #iwill Make Yourself Heard Youth Consultation and Leadership
£23,635 28/10/2021
#iwill Make Yourself Heard Youth Consultation and Leadership
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 30/10/2020
A Future for Endangered Heritage Craft Skills Post-COVID
Dulverton Trust - Endangered Craft Fund
£21,174 21/10/2020
Endangered Craft Fund
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Heritage Crafts Association
£15,000 25/09/2020
12
The Red List of Endangered Crafts
Dulverton Trust - A Future for Heritage Crafts
£55,000 13/02/2019
A Future for Heritage Crafts
Dulverton Trust - A future for Heritage Crafts (Core costs)
£30,000 14/02/2018
A future for Heritage Crafts (Core costs)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/11 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/11/2014, number: 1159208
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR20: 70 days late,
Main office

81 North Street
WELLINGTON
TA21 8NA

Objectives

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL AND HERITAGE CRAFTS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH EDUCATION, ADVICE AND TRAINING.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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