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Textile Reuse and International Development

Textile Reuse and International Development is a registered charity (number 297489) based in Middlesex, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Lekha Klouda since 2011. Latest income £9.3m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Traid (Charity Commission)

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £9.3m (2024)

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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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.traid.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Textile Reuse and International Development
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£9.3m£9.4m
  • 2023£9.1m£8.0m
  • 2022£8.7m£6.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£6.5m£5.7m
  • 2020£5.3m£5.7m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

A) TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE UNDERTAKING OF RECYCLING, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF RECYCLING FACILITIES FOR TEXTILES, AND THE PROMOTION OF THE PRACTICE OF RECYCLING TEXTILES, CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS. B) TO APPLY SURPLUS INCOME FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. C)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING RECYCLING AND WORLD POVERTY THROUGH PROGRAMMES OF TEACHING, TRAINING, PUBLISHING, EXHIBITIONS, SEMINARS AND OTHER MEANS OF PROVIDING EDUCATION SERVICES AND RESOURCES.

Grants received

1 grant · £4,750 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £4,750

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,7502006-03-15
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.

6 trustees on the board

7.6y median 8y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

6
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 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5Overseas Aid/famine Relief 4Economic/community Development/employment 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Retail and trade 6Professional services 3Business services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£9.3m 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.

7.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.7 in 2020

171 from 133 in 2020
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
297489
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 JUL 1987AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 JUN 1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 MAY 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUN 2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 APR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23 MAR 2017
Companies House
Company number 02143753 · Active
Contact on the register
02087332580 · info@traid.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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