CREATION FEST LIMITED

Registered charity 1121924 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organizing and presenting an annual 7 day outdoor festival plus a number of related promotional road shows leading up to the main festival featuring contemporary Christian musicians and public speakers for the purpose of attracting the general public with the view to ministering the Gospel of Jesus Christ and teaching on subjects relevant to Christian doctrine to all those who will hear.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:1 TO WORSHIP GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT;2 TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE TEACHING AND PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD (THE BIBLE);3 TO PROCLAIM THAT MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD REPENT AND BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOUR AND LORD.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NORTH DEVON

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves were in a deficit of £20,870 at the end of the financial year. Per the trustees' report, additional fundraising raised over £70,000 to return reserves to a surplus position, and the trustees consider the charity a going concern for at least the next twelve months. The charity lacks a sustainable vision for long-term core team employment due to budget constraints.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2025 (received 03/09/2026, 3 days after the 31/08/2026 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05824431

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.

• STEPHENS, Marc — director, appointed 31/05/2024on trustee list
• MCLEAN, Colin Andrew — director, appointed 09/08/2019on trustee list
• BRODERSEN, Brian Donald — director, appointed 09/08/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Andrew McLean
• Marc Stephens

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CEDARWOOD FESTIVAL LIMITED.

• CEDARWOOD FESTIVAL LIMITED income £91k
• FESTIVAL CHURCH income £578k
• CREATE LONDON income £609k
• LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £436k
• BEWDLEY FESTIVAL LIMITED income £86k
• CREATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (UK / EUROPE) LTD income £368k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.