BUDLEIGH SALTERTON LITERARY FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1127885 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The funding, organisation and promotion of the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. Festival events are open to and attended by members of the public from across the community including our local schools.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN EAST DEVON BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS OF LITERATURE, POETRY, THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD, AND RELATED ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BY FOSTERING AND SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE BUDLEIGH SALTERTON LITERARY FESTIVAL.

Area of benefit: EAST 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: East Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £11,179, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £76,193. The trustees note that rising costs have been monitored and that sufficient reserves are maintained to secure the charity's sustainability. No material uncertainties or significant financial risks were explicitly disclosed in the filing.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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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 31/12/2025 (received 12/11/2026, 12 days after the 31/10/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Richard Marston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Thomas
• Gillian Harris
• HILARY SHIELS
• JANE Burton
• Jane Stark
• John Rust-Andrews
• Linden Harris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Julia Elizabeth Milne
• Ruth Marion Jones
• Susan Patricia BRIGGS

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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

• BUDLEIGH MUSIC FESTIVAL income £159k
• MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £90k
• STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL income £307k
• BEWDLEY FESTIVAL LIMITED income £86k
• MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £248k
• BURY ST EDMUNDS LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £34k

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