Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 6

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 14

MAKE SOUTHWEST

MAKE Southwest is dedicated to enriching lives through Making and Craft. As an education charity it engages with communities and young people to provide learning opportunities through outreach, exhibitions, and workshops. For Makers it offers professional development, help with reducing environmental impact and showcasing their work.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 37 years

www.crafts.org.uk

hello@crafts.org.uk

01626832223

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
30/06/23		£383	£424	£-41	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/22		£455	£369	£86	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1
30/06/21		£354	£272	£81	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
30/06/20?		£450	£485	£-35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/12/18		£852	£881	£-29	£597	£566	£554	7.5	42	17
31/12/17		£835	£808	£28	£546	£594	£563	8.4	20	0
31/12/16		£778	£799	£-21	£511	£566	£515	7.7	22	0
31/12/15		£805	£763	£42	£514	£587	£472	7.4	20	0
31/12/14		£862	£681	£182	£481	£992	£857	15.1	17	0
31/12/13		£704	£701	£3	£501	£810	£783	13.4	18	0
31/12/12		£691	£722	£-31	£492	£807	£794	13.2	20	0
31/12/11	*	£806	£790	£16	£483	£838	£774	11.8	20	0
31/12/10		£892	£759	£133	£481	£822	£752	11.9	18	0
31/12/09		£701	£661	£40	£465	£689	£674	12.2	17	0
31/12/08		£695	£694	£0	£458	£649	£637	11	17	0
31/12/07		£709	£742	£-33	£454	£649	£634	10.3	17	0
31/12/06	*	£262	£310	£-48	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£473	£297	£176	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£690	£340	£350	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

What it does

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£187,347
Garfield Weston Foundation	£30,000
Architectural Heritage Fund	£28,300
Co-Operative Group	£7,633

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	03/06/2022	Crafting Futures
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to MAKE Southwest
£15,000	09/11/2021	Riverside Mill
Architectural Heritage Fund - Grant to MAKE Southwest
£13,300	16/06/2020	Riverside Mill
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	12/06/2020	Devon Guild of Craftsmen - Core Costs application
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018-2022
£158,419	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
DCMS - Celebrating Age Loneliness Projects
£28,928	01/04/2020	The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given ....more The wider aim of the scheme is: We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. By 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of us is valued and given the chance to flourish and where everyone of us has access to a remarkable range of high quality cultural experiences. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help deliver this vision.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Devon Guild of Craftsmen
£7,633	15/11/2019	We want to provide free craft activities in our gallery for our local community to enjoy, learn new skills, and be inspired by making.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Devon Guild of Craftsmen
£5,500	13/12/2018	Witch-Craft: Sharing the South West's history of witches through craft
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	29/11/2018	Supporting Devon Guild of Craftsmen's core costs in 2018
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Devon Guild of Craftsmen
£4,386	29/11/2017	We want to provide a programme of craft and design drop-in workshops, demonstrations and gallery activities for visitors to Riverside Mill.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-75

ANDREW NORTH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Regional Secretary, Other trusteeship: ASPECT TRUST,

ASHTON-MARIE SUTCLIFFE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor

CATHERINE WOODS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Architect

DAVID ANDREW ALCOCK Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

ELEANOR BARTLEMAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Ceramist

GILLIAN GREENWOOD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Marketing Consultant

JANE DEANE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Textile Artist

MICHAEL DAVID LEA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant, Other trusteeships: BRISTOL DRUGS PROJECT LIMITED, BRISTOL RUGBY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, BRISTOL CATHEDRAL TRUST,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/04/1987, number: 296568
Registered at Companies House on 09/06/1986, number: 02026446

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR11: 1 days late, AR06: 5 days late,

Main office

MAKE Southwest
RIVERSIDE MILL
FORE STREET
BOVEY TRACEY
NEWTON ABBOT
TQ13 9AF

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH WILL ENCOURAGE THE EXERCISE AND MAINTAIN THE STANDARDS OF CRAFTS BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN, PRESERVE AND IMPROVE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FOSTER, PROMOTE AND INCREASE THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC THEREIN PARTICULARLY IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON BUT TO INCLUDE THOSE FROM OTHER COUNTIES, PARTICULARLY CORNWALL, SOMERSET AND DORSET, WILTSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

DEVON

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