TORBAY AND SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1039997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Competitive festival of performing arts

Objects

THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR 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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Torbay, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's reserves remain buoyant at £45,522, showing a marked financial improvement from the previous year. The trustees report that the festival remains on a sound financial footing with sufficient resources to continue for the foreseeable future. Unrestricted funds increased to £30,922, while restricted funds stood at £14,600.

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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Philip Blurtonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyne Clark
• Catherine Helen Serjeant
• DIANNE MARTIN
• Debra Harding
• Jennifer Yvonne Bald
• KENNETH JAMES DOWELL
• Karen Walker
• Linda Lear · trustee of 1 other charity
• Polly Ferguson-Carruthers
• Rosemary Anne Davies

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

Operates in: Torbay

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST GRINSTEAD MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION.

• EAST GRINSTEAD MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION income £36k
• THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL income £208k
• WOODLEY FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND ARTS income £29k
• THE WESTOVIAN THEATRE SOCIETY income £70k
• WYCOMBE MULTICULTURAL ORGANISATION income £183k
• LONDON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL income £156k

Side by side with its peers

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