Registered charity (CIO) · Newcastle upon Tyne
Graduate Fashion Foundation
- 14 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Douglas Gordon Macgregor MaclennanChair · since 2017
- Anthony BrotheridgeTrustee · since 2019
- Benita Odogwu-AtkinsonTrustee · since 2020
- Dean DaviesTrustee · since 2025
- Della SwainTrustee · since 2020
- Elena Crehan-JonesTrustee · since 2024
- Emma Askew-MillerTrustee · since 2024
- Gavin DouglasTrustee · since 2020
- John Maurice MullenTrustee · since 2020
- Joy CampbellTrustee · since 2023
- Lauren ProsserTrustee · since 2026
- Sarah Elizabeth ThomasTrustee · since 2025
- Tania LittlehalesTrustee · since 2020
- Wendy ANN Dagworthy PrewTrustee · since 2017
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
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.graduatefashionweek.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.0m
- 2024£918k£914k
- 2023£955k£661k
Earlier years
- 2022£658k£760k
- 2021£502k£469k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CIO ARE1)FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT IN LIFE OF NEWLY GRADUATED AND CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE FASHION STUDENTS, BY THE ORGANISING AND THE RUNNING OF EVENTS, TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND EXPERIENCE, RELATED TO WORKING IN THE FASHION INDUSTRIES, INCLUSIVE OF THE ANNUAL GRADUATE FASHION WEEK EVENT.2)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PERSONS WHO ARE, OR WILL BE EMPLOYED IN THE FASHION/FASHION RELATED INDUSTRIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE SUBJECTS OF FASHION DESIGN, TEXTILES, ACCESSORIES, MARKETING, BUSINESS, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Board analysis
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.
14 trustees on the board
- Douglas Gordon Macgregor Maclennan Chair since 2017
- Anthony Brotheridge since 2019
- Benita Odogwu-Atkinson since 2020
- Dean Davies since 2025
- Della Swain since 2020
- Elena Crehan-Jones since 2024
- Emma Askew-Miller since 2024
- Gavin Douglas since 2020
- John Maurice Mullen since 2020
- Joy Campbell since 2023
- Lauren Prosser since 2026
- Sarah Elizabeth Thomas since 2025
- Tania Littlehales since 2020
- Wendy ANN Dagworthy Prew since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Douglas Gordon Macgregor Maclennan Chair since 2017
- Anthony Brotheridge since 2019
- John Maurice Mullen since 2020
- Tania Littlehales since 2020
- Wendy ANN Dagworthy Prew since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (14)
- Douglas Gordon Macgregor Maclennan Chair since 2017
- Anthony Brotheridge since 2019
- Benita Odogwu-Atkinson since 2020
- Dean Davies since 2025
- Della Swain since 2020
- Elena Crehan-Jones since 2024
- Emma Askew-Miller since 2024
- Gavin Douglas since 2020
- John Maurice Mullen since 2020
- Joy Campbell since 2023
- Lauren Prosser since 2026
- Sarah Elizabeth Thomas since 2025
- Tania Littlehales since 2020
- Wendy ANN Dagworthy Prew since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
4.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1173132
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 22 May 2017
- Contact on the register
- 020 8158 3170 · info@graduatefashionweek.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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