# The Centre for International Storytelling

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1109510
- **Other names:** THE LONDON CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING, LCIS, THE CRICK CRACK CLUB
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** May 17, 2005
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1109510


## Contact

- **Address:** 21 Ealing Park Mansions, 114 South Ealing Road, London
- **Postcode:** W5 4QD
- **Phone:** 07791157437
- **Email:** kate@crickcrackclub.com
- **Website:** www.crickcrackclub.com



## Activities

**Objects:** 3.1.1  TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ART, PRACTICE AND VALUE OF ORAL STORYTELLING AND IN KNOWLEDGE OF THE FORM AND CONTENT OF THE ORAL TRADITIONS OF ALL OF THE PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF THE WORLD BY ACTIVELY PROMOTING THE EXPLORATION AND SHARING OF ORAL TRADITIONS, STORYTELLING AND STORIES.

**Activities:** The LCIS promotes the art and practice of oral storytelling. Its public name is The Crick Crack Club. It  promotes and programmes public performance storytelling, tours work and supports artists. It offers advice to live arts programmers and places storytellers in educational, community and heritage settings. It also holds an archive of audio material and ephemera relating to the art form.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £146157 | £123400 | — | — |
| March 31, 2024 | £86898 | £99728 | — | — |
| March 31, 2023 | £105221 | £109189 | — | — |
| March 31, 2022 | £106186 | £87248 | — | — |
| March 31, 2021 | £32597 | £34148 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **JOSHUA BRUCE WISKEY** (Chair) — appointed June 12, 2013
- Corinne HARRAGIN — appointed Sept. 21, 2021
- Himanshu OJHA — appointed Sept. 21, 2021
- JENNIFER PEARCY-EDWARDS — appointed Jan. 22, 2017
- Rana Ward — appointed Nov. 30, 2014