BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1164729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL LTD

Music and Arts Festival based in Newcastle and Gateshead.

Objects

EDUCATIONMUSIC AND ARTSRACIAL HARMONY

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£47k
Latest spending
£39k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £8,353 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £46,887 and total expenses of £38,534. The charity holds total funds of £16,790, comprising cash at bank, PayPal, and cash in hand, with no liabilities disclosed. The directors confirm the accounts were prepared under the small companies' regime and exempt from audit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Private donations &bank incentive (30% of income)
“Private donations &bank incentive 14,248” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £1,500 — grants £1,500 (1); 3% of the £46,887 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £1,500 — grants £1,500 (1); 3% of the £49,925 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Government income: £750 — grants £750 (1); 2% of the £36,958 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 22/05/2024, 22 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£47k£39k
30/06/2024£50k£55k
30/06/2023£37k£39k
30/06/2022£39k£41k
30/06/2021£14k£4k

Common questions

Is BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £8,353 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £46,887 and total expenses of £38,534. The charity holds total funds of £16,790, comprising cash at bank, PayPal, and cash in hand, with no liabilities disclosed. The directors confirm the accounts were prepared under the small companies' regime and exempt from audit. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL as a grant recipient include THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION, THE JOICEY TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Community Foundation North East18/09/2025£10kGrant to Brundibár Arts Festival
Community Foundation North East17/10/2024£10kGrant to Brundibár Arts Festival
Community Foundation North East10/11/2022£2kGrant to Brundibár Arts Festival
Community Foundation North East04/11/2021£5kA grant to Brundibar Arts Festival
Community Foundation North East06/04/2018£200Music and Poetry event entitled Strange Passenger
Community Foundation North East21/12/2016£900Towards Week-long Festival of commemorative artistic events for Holocaust Memorial Day

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NUNEATON FESTIVAL OF ARTS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BRUNDIBAR ARTS FESTIVAL£47k—0unclear—no doubt
NUNEATON FESTIVAL OF ARTS FY2025£36k—0unclear—no doubt
EAST GRINSTEAD MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION FY2026£36k—0unclear—no doubt
BRADFIELD FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ASSOCIATION FY2025£34k—0above—no doubt
BROADWAY ARTS FESTIVAL TRUST FY2025£239k—0unclear—no doubt
STROUD FESTIVAL FY2025£34k—0unclear—no doubt

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