Registered charity (CIO) · Stoke-on-Trent

The Clay Foundation

8 trustees
Income £624k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where: Stoke-on-trent City
Website: www.britishceramicsbiennial.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2015

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£624k£569k
2024£721k£711k
2023£392k£401k

Earlier years

2022£575k£608k
2021£440k£344k

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF, AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE ART OF CERAMICS, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES OF THE CIO MAY DECIDE.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Deirdre Figueiredo since 2019

10.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 10Other services 4Property 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£624k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 0.4 in 2021

9 from 12 in 2022

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1160430
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - Foundation Registered 11 Feb 2015 as amended on 15 Jan 2026
Contact on the register: 01782294634 · info@britishceramicsbiennial.com
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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