DARNHILL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1138567 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as D.F.A

To promote, for the benefit of the public, the arts, providing that they are of recognised cultural, aesthetic or educational value and foster, promote, and increase public taste and knowledge of the arts and in particular the active encouragement and dvelopment of children in the arts.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE ARTS, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE OF RECOGNISED CULTURAL, AESTHETIC OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE AND TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND INCREASE PUBLIC APPRECIATION, TASTE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ACTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN THE ARTS2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS IN LIFE

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £1 for the year ended 31 December 2024. Per the balance sheet, net assets and reserves decreased from £1,123 to £837 during the period. The filing notes that the company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• VIVIEN WALLBANKchair
• Ann Patricia Jones
• KATHLEEN MAY CHORLTON

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

Operates in: Rochdale

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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