The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Traidcraft Foundation

Registered charity 294953 Registered since 1986

Operates: North Tyneside

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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.

5 trustees on the board

5.2y median 2y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Other services 3Professional services 3Education 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£3.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

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

49 from 54 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.traidcraft.co.uk
Emailjjelefroy@gmail.com
Phone01782627300
AddressTraidcraft Exchange, Turners Building, 7-15 Pink Lane, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 5DW

Finances

£3,474,812 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,825,000£3,336,000
2022£4,244,000£3,542,000
2023£3,223,652£4,354,330
2024£3,377,803£3,922,184
2025£3,474,812£3,506,584

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE AS FOLLOWS:- (1) THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS IN THOSE COUNTRIES DEFINED AS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE 14.3 OF THE DEED DATED 3RD DECEMBER 2002 (THEREIN AND HEREINAFTER CALLED "DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"). (2) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF STUDIES IN THEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC SUBJECTS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS (3) THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF EDUCATION AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THESE SUBJECTS WITH PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE) REFERENCE TO THE PROBLEMS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARISING FROM NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADING PRACTICES (4) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY COMMENDING THAT RELIGION TO PERSONS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND ELSEWHERE (5) THE PROMOTION OF OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 1.5 OF DEED DATED 3 DECEMBER 2002).

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 21ST JULY 1986 AS VARIED BY DEED OF AMALGAMATION DATED 3RD SEPTEMBER 1986 AND AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEEDS DATED 18TH JANUARY 1988 AND 10 MARCH 1995 AS VARIED BY A DECLARATION OF TRUST DATES 03/12/05 AND ORDER OF 21/11/05

Trustees (5)

5trustees
67median age
0aged 70+

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