THE APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1171761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Appledore Book Festival raises the profile of Appledore, increases enjoyment of reading in the community for all ages and abilities through exciting events, raises money for local charitable purposes and encourages support for libraries.The Festival advances the education of the public in the subject of literature, reading and the local history of Appledore and its surrounding area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF LITERATURE, READING AND THE LOCAL HISTORY OF APPLEDORE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA.TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE THAT IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Torridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net incoming resource of £10,368 for the year, increasing its total unrestricted and designated funds to £135,258. This balance exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £85,000, which is intended to cover short-term funding drops. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/12/2021 (received 24/11/2022, 24 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• People's Postcode Lottery — “We are absolutely delighted to announce that the Appledore Book Festival has received a generous grant from the People’s Postcode Lottery as…” (source page)
• Charlotte Aitken Trust — “Charlotte Aitken Trust Schools Week” (source page)
• Bruce Wake Charitable Trust — “Thanks also to: Bruce Wake Charitable Trust for improving disabled access at Skern” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sara Elizabeth Mendosachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Dykes Stevenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Dianne Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Rogers Britton
• Patricia Hadley-Smith
• Richard Hamilton Cable
• Sean Kearney
• Susan Sandon

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL.

• MARLBOROUGH LITERATURE FESTIVAL income £90k
• CHILDREN'S BOOK FEST - CHICHESTER CIO income £61k
• STRATFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL income £307k
• ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL income £109k
• WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED income £1.3m
• DERBY BOOK FESTIVAL income £254k

Side by side with its peers

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