Designer Bookbinders

Analysis

Designer Bookbinders is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Worcestershire. It was registered in March 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Designer Bookbinders reported income of £127k and spending of £110k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £76k to £127k (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 79%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Designer Bookbinders sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Rondo Trust for the Performing Arts (£127k), Virtuosi Gus Band (£127k) and Cylch Meithrin y Gelli (£127k).