STROUD FESTIVAL

Registered charity 1182255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides grants to organisations and individuals in the Stroud District, Gloucestershire providing creative arts activities, particularly for children and young people.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT ANNUALLY, OR AS MAY BE OTHERWISE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES, A FESTIVAL OF ARTS, WITHIN THE STROUD DISTRICT, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, AND TO PROMOTE OTHER EVENTS IN OTHER AREAS FROM TIME TO TIME, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING PUBLIC INTEREST IN, AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE VISUAL AND DRAMATIC ARTS, MUSIC, POETRY, BALLET AND DANCE, AND TO INCREASE PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF GOOD DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE, IN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND IN CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMANSHIP, AND IN GENERAL TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND ARTISTIC MATTERS.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £5,789 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing total funds to £18,025. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operating. The charity operates with no employees and relies on trustee governance and volunteer support.

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 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 31/03/2023 (received 14/06/2024, 135 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMILA ELIZABETH GAVIN
• JENNIFER GREENSHIELDS
• JON COLLINS

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 CHURCH STRETTON AND SOUTH SHROPSHIRE ARTS FESTIVAL.

• CHURCH STRETTON AND SOUTH SHROPSHIRE ARTS FESTIVAL income £76k
• BROADWAY ARTS FESTIVAL TRUST income £239k
• EAST GRINSTEAD MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION income £36k
• STROUD SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS TRUST income £1.4m
• SOUTHWOLD ARTS FESTIVAL income £31k
• TRING ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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