HASLEMERE FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1104757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Encouragement of the arts (including music, singing, drama, painting, literature, dance and visual arts) for the benefit of the inhabitants of Haslemere & District.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ART OF MUSIC, SINGING, DRAMA, PAINTING, LITERATURE, DANCE AND VISUAL ARTS BY THE PROMOTION OF CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HASLEMERE AND DISTRICT.

Area of benefit: HASLEMERE AND DISTRICT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £17,106 for the year ended 30 September 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £95,159. The trustees confirm that these reserves are sufficient to meet the charity's needs and that the going concern basis is appropriate. The charity relies entirely on volunteers and has no paid staff or trading subsidiaries.

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 5 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04918368 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• STENT, Adrian Peter — director, appointed 04/03/2025on trustee list
• ROUND, Melanie Jill — director, appointed 20/10/2023not on trustee list
• DONALDSON, Hamish — director, appointed 01/10/2003not on trustee list
• HOWARD, Brian — director, appointed 01/10/2003not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAMISH DONALDSON MBE DLchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• Adrian Peter Stent · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN HOWARD MBE
• Melanie Jill Round MBE

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).