DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED
Registered charity 1100003 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS LIMITED
To promote, maintain, improve and advance education by the encouraement of the arts, including the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music, and all other arts relating to the performance and presentation thereof and to formulate, prepare and establish schemes therefor, provided that all objects of the company shall be of a charitable nature.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £5,994, resulting in cumulative unrestricted reserves of £74,340. The trustees' report notes that expenditure exceeded income, but the charity maintains a reserves policy target of three months' management fees and 5% of one festival's direct costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months' management fees and 5% of one festival's direct costs (held: £74k)
“the directors have decided to aim to maintain general reserves at a level of threes months' management fees and 5% of one festival's direct costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- LAYTON, Kerri Anne — director, appointed 07/11/2025on trustee list
- GREEN, Paul — director, appointed 22/03/2024on trustee list
- ANDERSON, Rolande Jane — director, appointed 26/01/2024on trustee list
- HUTTON, Deirdre Mary, Dame — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
- LEWIS, Juliet Desiree — director, appointed 02/09/2022on trustee list
- WELLS, Deirdre Anne — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
- DORRITT, Penelope Jane — director, appointed 11/04/2018not on trustee list
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
- Penny Dorrittchair
- Dame Deirdre Mary Hutton
- Deirdre Anne Wells
- Juliet Desiree Lewis
- Kerri Anne Layton
- PAUL GREEN · trustee of 2 other charities
- ROLANDE ANDERSON
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Kent
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £5,994, resulting in cumulative unrestricted reserves of £74,340. The trustees' report notes that expenditure exceeded income, but the charity maintains a reserves policy target of three months' management fees and 5% of one festival's direct costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention giving cause to believe the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED as a grant recipient include JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST, THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS FOUNDATION, SANDWICH TOLL BRIDGE FUND.
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