NORFOLK AND NORWICH FESTIVAL TRUST

Registered charity 1164424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To run and support the annual arts festival in Norfolk and Norwich. To act as one of the Regional Bridge organisations to promote the Arts in education

Objects

PROMOTING, MAINTAINING, IMPROVING AND ADVANCING EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS OF SINGING AND MUSIC AND DRAMA AND BALLET AND TO FORMULATE AND PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFORE, PROVIDED THAT ALL PURPOSES OF THE CIO SHALL BE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis and the independent auditors have identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. The audit opinion confirms that the statements give a true and fair view of the group's and parent charity's affairs as at 31 December 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Bates
• Julia Elizabeth Carruthers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Heyman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maddie Exton
• Marc David Naveed Jaffrey
• Martin Ambrose Mitchell
• Paige Olivia Gouldthorpe
• Professor Fiona Elaine Lettice
• Richard Nicholas Laurence Ross
• Tafadzwa Gladmore Kativu

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUNG NORFOLK ARTS TRUST.

• YOUNG NORFOLK ARTS TRUST income £39k
• NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL income £111k
• NORWICH ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• BROADWAY ARTS FESTIVAL TRUST income £239k
• NORTHERN ALDBOROUGH FESTIVAL income £151k
• NORTHERN CHORDS FESTIVAL income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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