THE GRANGE FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1165859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Performing arts in particular opera

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ART OF MUSIC AND DRAMA ( INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCING, SINGING AND ALL FORMS CONSTITUTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF MUSIC) AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA.NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND / OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

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Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £86,690 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £1,439,429. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, although they note a lack of substantial reserves and reliance on regular fundraising as a principal risk. Free reserves at year-end were £66,859, which is below the stated policy target of holding sufficient reserves to operate for a minimum of one year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Moody — Chief Operations Officer (source)
• Tyler Stoops — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Malcolm Le May — Chair (source)
• Sheila Wye — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Scott Cooper — Director of Artistic Administration (source)
• Guy Verrall-Withers — Director of Audiences and Impact (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bindesh Premchand Shah
• Douglas Rae
• Katharine Helen Byrne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm John Le May
• Nicholas Timothy Allan · trustee of 3 other charities
• Oliver Guy Ruffman Baines
• Peter John Woods
• QC ROSAMUND BERNAYS QC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 GRANGE PARK OPERA.

• GRANGE PARK OPERA income £4.0m
• RYEDALE FESTIVAL TRUST LTD income £440k
• CAMBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED income £264k
• CONGLETON MUSICAL THEATRE income £27k
• LONGBOROUGH FESTIVAL OPERA income £3.0m
• BIG CHURCH FESTIVAL LIMITED income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

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