Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 5
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

CLERKENWELL GREEN ASSOCIATION 

Clerkenwell Green Association, working name Craft Central, supports crafts people and designer-makers and enables public access to them through a range of initatives including provision of workspace plus mentoring, training and showcasing.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

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
31/03/23£385£404£-19n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£383£480£-97n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£234£454£-220n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£229£501£-272n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19*£156£610£-453n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/18£1,501£749£753£24£1,676£1,67626.940
31/03/17£633£579£54£36£923£92019.170
31/03/16£762£553£209£25£826£82217.860
31/03/15£599£559£40£56£517£5121150
31/03/14£627£592£35£90£459£4489.160
31/03/13£592£546£46£78£420£4139.160
31/03/12£523£554£-31£110£374£3657.950
31/03/11£530£511£19£68£405£3959.350
31/03/10£565£522£43£72£385£3758.650
31/03/09£601£572£28£84£343£3316.950
31/03/08£628£588£40£67£314£3016.150
31/03/07*£532£549£-17£55£275£2615.740
31/03/06£485£525£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£434£375£59£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£367£372£-6£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 43 years

www.craftcentral.org.uk

info@craftcentral.org.uk

02075380819

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£25,000 29/11/2022
as core funding support for the next 12 months
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 03/09/2021
Core Activities 21/22
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£20,000 08/07/2021
towards core funding in yearend March 2022 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 34-49
  • SIMONNE MASON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Global Senior Strategy Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/12/1980, number: 281415
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/02/1979, number: 01415266
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 32 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

THE FORGE
411 Westferry Road
LONDON
E14 3AE

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 FURTHER PROMOTE AND INCREASE THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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