COCKERMOUTH FESTIVALS GROUP CIO

Registered charity 1206784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COCKERMOUTH LIVE

We organise and run Cockermouth LIVE!, which is an annual festival at various venues throughout Cockermouth, Cumbria showcasing a range of performing and other arts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL FORMS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ART OF DRAMA, DANCE, MUSIC AND WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD THROUGH THE DELIVERY OF AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL IN COCKERMOUTH, CUMBRIA AND THE SURROUNDING AREA SPECIFICALLY AIMED TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO APPRECIATE SUCH ARTS IN A VARIETY OF VENUES IN COCKERMOUTH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

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: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small loss, causing unrestricted reserves to decrease by just under £800 to £7,793. This falls below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equal to half of anticipated annual expenditure. However, the charity remains solvent with total cash funds of £16,468 and received an unqualified independent examination report.

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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Richard Speightchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Hilton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Cooney
• CHRISTOPHER KEVIN BRIDGMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• CLIVE DAVID BARNARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Elizabeth Parry MBE
• Charlotte Dumbill

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FESTIVAL OF LIFE.

• FESTIVAL OF LIFE income £897k
• THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION income £37k
• KIRCKMAN CONCERT SOCIETY LIMITED income £25k
• CORBRIDGE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL income £34k
• COCKERMOUTH ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £25k
• CAMBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED income £264k

Side by side with its peers

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