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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £69,720 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total consolidated funds of £603,555. The trustees consider that the free reserves of £251,304 are sufficiently close to the stated policy target of £250,000, which represents three months of average organisational costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORWICH ARTS CENTRE LIMITED.

• NORWICH ARTS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• FREEDOM FESTIVAL ARTS TRUST income £747k
• NEWCASTLE ARTS CENTRE TRUST LTD income £175k
• Culture& Arts and Heritage income £523k
• NORTH NORFOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL income £111k
• THEATRE ROYAL (NORWICH) TRUST LIMITED income £20.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.