CHILDREN'S BOOK FEST - CHICHESTER CIO

Registered charity 1183937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote for the public benefit and in particular for children the enjoyment of books and reading.To promote for the public benefit education in books and reading.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE,PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUBSIDISED LITERARY FESTIVALS AND BOOKS

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: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a modest surplus of £8,170 for the year, with unrestricted reserves comprising mostly a bank balance. The trustees confirmed that reserves met their policy target of covering three months of overheads and festival costs, and stated there is no uncertainty about continuing as a going concern.

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.

• 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
• 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Mark Philip Featherstone-Witty OBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANNA PAGE ASHWORTH
• Amanda Kings
• Elaine Mary Bentley
• Gathorne James Gough · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Emily Rogers
• Penelope Jane Mary Tomlinson
• Sahra Ann Claire Ward Gott

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT.

• CHILDREN'S BOOK PROJECT income £583k
• THE FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER income £32k
• Shropshire Bookfest income £37k
• THE FEDERATION OF CHILDREN'S BOOK GROUPS income £52k
• WORLD BOOK DAY LIMITED income £1.3m
• CHESTER FOLK FESTIVAL income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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