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Crafts Council

Crafts Council is a registered charity (number 280956) based in London, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by John Edward Knell since 2023. Latest income £3.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.craftscouncil.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.6m£3.6m
  • 2024£3.5m£3.4m
  • 2023£3.8m£4.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.8m£3.9m
  • 2021£4.2m£3.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 67%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE THE CREATION AND CONSERVATION OF ARTICLES OF FINE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND TO FOSTER PROMOTE AND INCREASE THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IN THE WORK OF CRAFTSMEN AND THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THOSE WORKS TO THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

11 grants · £5,505,639 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £4,445,778 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £465,846 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £373,546 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £100,000
  • City Bridge Trust · £100,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £235,4462023-07-05
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £2,222,8892022-10-20
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £2,222,8892022-10-20
  • Cripplegate Foundation £10,5602020-09-22
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £353,8462020-04-01
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.

12 trustees on the board

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Accommodation/housing 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Property 7Tech and media 6Construction 5

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£3.6m latest income
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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.9 in 2021

27 from 47 in 2021
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
280956
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 20 JULY 1982 AMENDED ORDER OF COUNCIL 20 JULY 1993 SCHEME 13 DECEMBER 1993
Contact on the register
02078062500 · finance@craftscouncil.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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