SOUTHWOLD ARTS FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1161134 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organising and promoting Southwold Arts Festival for the public benefit

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Latest income
£31k
Latest spending
£39k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the 2024 festival made a significant loss of £8,520, marking the first such deficit since its inception in 2014. The trustees report that finance remains an area for attention due to rising performer fees and challenging sponsorship conditions. However, they remain confident that current reserves are sufficient to continue activities for another year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: working capital requirements for the following year
Reserves are needed to meet the working capital requirements of the charity and the trustees are reasonably confident that at the present level they would be able to continue the current activities of the charity for another year. — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£31k£39k
31/03/2024£45k£43k
31/03/2023£49k£41k
01/04/2022£4£3k
01/04/2021£26£256

Common questions

Is SOUTHWOLD ARTS FESTIVAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the 2024 festival made a significant loss of £8,520, marking the first such deficit since its inception in 2014. The trustees report that finance remains an area for attention due to rising performer fees and challenging sponsorship conditions. However, they remain confident that current reserves are sufficient to continue activities for another year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund13/03/2020£9kSouthwold Arts Festival