COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1162524 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Cowbridge Music Festival is an annual festival, held in September in the Vale of Glamorgan, of chamber, instrumental and vocal music, jazz and folk music. Providing opportunities for young musicians it includes an extensive schools outreach programme, concerts given by young musicians and the Chamber Music Seminar. The Festival Fringe was started in 2018 to give opportunities to local music groups

Objects

TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS, PRINCIPALLY BY ARRANGING AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL.

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

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

Registered contact address: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net deficit of £7,565, with total expenditure of £113,997 exceeding total income of £106,432. Consequently, unrestricted cash reserves decreased to £16,062 from the previous year's £23,627. The trustees report that the festival's future success depends on securing necessary financial support amid challenging times for the arts.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cowbridge Music Festival (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL JOHN HILARY TRICKEYchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ELUNED PIERCE
• Janet Davies
• Judy Lynne Leering
• Julia Champion
• Lynne Plowman
• MARY ELLIOTT ROSE
• TESSA SHELLENS

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

Operates in: Bridgend · Cardiff · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CORBRIDGE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL income £34k
• CAMBRIDGE SUMMER MUSIC LTD income £120k
• PORTSMOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL income £25k

Side by side with its peers

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