MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1149252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARLBOROUGH LITFEST

Provides the public with opportunities for the appreciation, enjoyment and understanding of Literature and the Arts.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN LITERATURE, POETRY AND CREATIVE WRITING BY ORGANISING OF AN ANNUAL LITERARY FESTIVAL IN MARLBOROUGH AND PROJECTS AT OTHER TIMES DURING THE YEAR WHICH WILL ASSIST IN FULFILLING THOSE AIMS.

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted reserves of £74,482 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees state is in excess of their policy target of holding at least 50% of an annual festival's anticipated costs. The charity generated a net income of £8,117 from charitable activities, driven primarily by ticket sales and sponsorship. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07070372 · 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.

• WATSON, Deborah — director, appointed 08/01/2025on trustee list
• CROSSFIELD, Kathleen — director, appointed 08/01/2025on trustee list
• TYLER, Julia — director, appointed 10/01/2024on trustee list
• SPENCELY, Louise Helen — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• PARR, Diana Mary Camilla Vere — director, appointed 11/01/2023on trustee list
• PADFIELD, Alice Jane — director, appointed 12/01/2022on trustee list
• STOCK, Jonathan Peter — director, appointed 14/01/2019on trustee list
• REEKIE, Virginia Bridget — director, appointed 12/01/2015on trustee list
• FRY, Katherine Alexandra — director, appointed 12/01/2015on trustee list
• CROSSFIELD, Kathleen — secretary, appointed 08/01/2025

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Jane Padfield
• Deborah Watson
• Diana Mary Camilla Vere Parr
• Julia Tyler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Alexandra Fry
• Kathleen Crossfield
• Louise Helen Spencely
• VIRGINIA BRIDGET REEKIE · trustee of 1 other charity
• jonathan Peter Stock

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £248k
• STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL income £307k
• FESTIVAL MEDICAL SERVICES income £654k
• BURY ST EDMUNDS LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £34k
• NORTHERN ALDBOROUGH FESTIVAL income £151k
• THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL income £208k

Side by side with its peers

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