BRITISH ARTS FESTIVALS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1193943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BAFA

Association of arts Festivals, advocating on behalf of the sector.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS THROUGH ARTS FESTIVALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE ARTS OF MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS, DRAMA, MIME, DANCE, LITERATURE, POETRY AND FILMS, AND TO FORMULATE, PREPARE AND ESTABLISH SCHEMES THEREFOR; SUCH SCHEMES TO INCLUDE IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THESE OBJECTS THE CREATION OF A FORUM FOR THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND EXPERIENCE BETWEEN FESTIVALS, THE JOINT PROMOTION OF FESTIVALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, AND AS A CENTRAL SOURCE OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION FOR THOSE INVOLVED OR INTERESTED IN THE DIRECTION, PRESENTATION OR ORGANISATION OF FESTIVALS, THE PRESS AND THE PUBLIC.

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

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

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds stood at £17,414, which is below the charity's stated reserves policy target of six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £27,551 for the year, driven by restricted fund expenditure exceeding incoming resources.

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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Erica Jane Smithchair
• ANNA GREGG
• Ashley John Morris
• David Stephen Robert Jarman
• Helen Heslop
• SHARON MARIE CANAVAR
• Steve Heap

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CONCERT ARTISTES ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE CONCERT ARTISTES ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• BUXTON ARTS FESTIVAL LIMITED income £2.0m
• BATH FESTIVALS income £554k
• FESTIVAL OF LIFE income £1.0m
• BRADFIELD FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ASSOCIATION income £34k
• INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL LYRIC ART FESTIVAL income £388k

Side by side with its peers

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