WORTHING MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1038211 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORTHING MUSIC FESTIVAL, WORTHING MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION

TO HOLD OR PROMOTE AN ANNUAL COMPETITIVE MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL.TO ENCOURAGE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, NOTABLY MUSIC, THE SPOKEN WORD AND DANCE.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS,AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF MUSIC,SPEECH AND DRAMA,AND DANCE,IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

Per the Treasurer's report, the charity made a profit for the second consecutive year and maintains a healthy bank balance. The trustees manage the financial situation with due diligence, noting that while venue hire costs are rising, overheads remain relatively stable. The charity does not rely on enormous profits but benefits from a financial safety net.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/05/2023 (received 27/06/2024, 89 days after the 30/03/2024 due date); year ending 30/05/2022 (received 14/04/2023, 15 days after the 30/03/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Emerychair
• Jan Spooner Swabey B.Mus Hons

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: East Sussex · Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODLEY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND ARTS.

• WOODLEY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND ARTS income £29k
• WHIDDON AUTUMN FESTIVAL income £68k
• WORCESTER MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY income £36k
• HIGH VOLTAGE PERFORMING ARTS income £23k
• THE AMERSHAM FESTIVAL SOCIETY income £92k
• LAMBETH ORCHESTRA FUND income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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