GOWER FESTIVAL SOCIETY CIO

Registered charity 1198053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Festival of music and the arts

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLASSICAL MUSIC, BY THE PROVISION OF AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL AND OTHER ASSOCIATED EVENTS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the society was constituted in 2022 and acquired the assets and activities of the previous Gower Festival Society. The trustees aim to maintain their level of reserves in future years to enable the effective undertaking of the Society’s objectives.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts — “The Gower Festival acknowledges the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts for their generous donation which has allowed us to purchase the …” (source page)
• Coach House Pianos — “Thanks also to Coach House Pianos for their outstanding help in securing the piano.” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWINA HART MBEchair
• BRIAN PETER KOKELAAR
• Carl David Holt Johnson
• Deborah Catherine Lloyd
• Dr Hugh Leslie Aldous Dunthorne · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN FRANCIS MAHONEY
• KEVIN STEPHEN SMITH
• Kathleen Sarah LAWLOR
• LAURENCE JEROME CARPANINI · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTYN SPENCER JENKINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Francis Horry
• Sarah Margaret HARRIES
• William John Anderson

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea

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 THE WINDSOR FESTIVAL SOCIETY LIMITED.

• THE WINDSOR FESTIVAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £215k
• THE GUITING MUSIC FESTIVAL income £133k
• THE GOWER SOCIETY income £161k
• GOWER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £265k
• Three Choirs Festival Limited income £1.1m
• KEYNSHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION LTD income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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