FREEDOM FESTIVAL ARTS TRUST

Registered charity 1158439 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEDOM FESTIVAL

To engage and educate the public in the arts, particularly performance, music, drama, poetry reading, sculpture, painting, handicrafts and other arts; and encourage public participation in the arts by the presentation creative activities, exhibitions and festivals in the City of Kingston upon Hull and its environs. The core of this activity centres around the annual Freedom Festival.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, POETRY READING, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, HANDICRAFTS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ARTS; AND TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE SAID ARTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS IN THE CITY OF KINGSTON UPON HULL (?THE CITY?) AND ITS ENVIRONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO EVENTS WHICH CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF THE CITY INCLUDING ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY THROUGH THE PIONEERING WORK OF HULL-BORN WILLIAM WILBERFORCE; PROVIDED THAT THE PROMOTION OF SUCH EVENTS IS UNDERTAKEN SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £50,071, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £70,000 (three months of operating costs). The charity reported a net expenditure of £4,039 for the year, having utilized reserves to deliver its programme amidst a competitive fundraising landscape and increased costs. However, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operating, citing secured future funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and Wykeland Group.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patricia Mary Dalbychair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Annabelle Baron-Medlam
• Charlotte Harrison
• Daryl Beeton
• Deborah Chidera Arikibe
• Jenny Harris
• Mark Moore
• Mike Ross
• Oyintare Kagbala
• Robert James Louis Pritchard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tom Robert Curteis

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL TRUST.

• NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL TRUST income £1.9m
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• HELIX ARTS LIMITED income £501k
• HODDESDON (COMMUNITY) SOCIETY OF PERFORMING ARTS LTD. income £319k
• WYCOMBE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTRE income £198k
• FIERCE (FESTIVAL) LIMITED income £410k

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