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Quaker Tapestry Limited

The Quaker Tapestry At Kendal Limited, Quaker Tapestry At Kendal Limited

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1035077
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 3, 2025. Filing history
Registered
March 21, 1994
Legal form
Charitable company
Company number
02901085

Address

Address
Quaker Tapestry Ltd
Friends Meeting House
Stramongate
Kendal
LA9 4BH

Activities

The Quaker Tapestry is an exhibition of 77 embroidered panels made by 4,000 people from 15 countries between 1981 and 1996. The modern community textile project depicts the social and political context in which Quakerism developed from 1652 to the present day. Since 1994 it has been housed in Kendal's historic Quaker Meeting House and constitutes one of the largest community textiles in the world.

Objects: A) To Advance Education For Public Benefit By Displaying, Maintaining And Protectingembroidered Hangings Depicting Quakers, Their Worship And Work In The World (Herinafterreferred To As 'The Quaker Tapestry');b) To Advance The Education Of The Public By Teaching Arts And Crafts And In Particularembroidery And Allied Skills.

Classification

How
Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
What
Education/training, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Who
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind

Geography

Local Authority
Cumbria, Lancashire

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Assets Employees
Dec. 31, 2024 July 3, 2025On time £168,916 £250,812 - -
Dec. 31, 2023 Aug. 1, 2024On time £191,223 £222,264 - -
Dec. 31, 2022 Aug. 16, 2023On time £600,367 £513,914 £298,309 9
Dec. 31, 2021 Sept. 26, 2022On time £503,554 £501,427 £241,616 8
Dec. 31, 2020 July 30, 2021On time £176,025 £144,404 - -

Trustees

Name Appointed
Dr Andrew James Fincham (Chair) Oct. 3, 2020
Isabella Michelle Sterman Rosner June 8, 2024
Lesley Janet Batchelor OBE Oct. 3, 2020
Lindsay Grace Bullard June 11, 2022
Margaret Alice Brown June 14, 2025
Stephen John Perry Sept. 5, 2026