BRIGHTON DOME AND FESTIVAL LTD

Registered charity 249748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIGHTON DOME, BRIGHTON FESTIVAL, THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Brighton Dome & Festival Limited is constituted to advance education through the promotion, production and encouragement of a variety of art forms including music, dance, theatre and outdoor performance. This objective is realised through the annual presentation of the Brighton Festival and the year round operation of Brighton Dome.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £443k for the year, primarily driven by a one-off £183k VAT review expenditure. Despite this, the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate, citing positive free reserves of £1,604k and confirmed Arts Council England funding through March 2028.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00889184

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy Davies — Chief Executive (source)
• Martin Hudson — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Arts Council England — “A new collaborative programme supported by Arts Council England supporting venues to widen the range and scale of theatre presented across S…” (source page)
• Bruce Wake Charitable Trust — “We are grateful for the insight and generosity of the Individuals and Trusts & Foundations who supported to Phase One of the Royal Pavilion …” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ROBINSON, Joy — director, appointed 26/03/2026on trustee list
• BAIG, Shaheen — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• HUDSON, Martin Peter — director, appointed 01/10/2025on trustee list
• WALTER, Julia Charlotte — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• ALMONACID, Luis Roberto — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• ARMANI, Hoda Judah, Professor — director, appointed 19/05/2025on trustee list
• DREW, Stewart — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• BAXTER, Susan Chui Chi, Dr — director, appointed 23/01/2024on trustee list
• JAMES, Duncan Ross — director, appointed 20/09/2022on trustee list
• BRIGGS, Nicola Susan — director, appointed 20/09/2022on trustee list
• MCCUSKER, Peter Anthony — director, appointed 20/09/2022on trustee list
• O'TOOLE-QUINN, Jacqueline Ann — director, appointed 07/07/2020on trustee list
• LEWIS, Melanie Elizabeth — director, appointed 17/09/2019on trustee list
• RHODES, Robyn — secretary, appointed 04/07/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Ross James
• Jackie Ann O'Toole-Quinn
• Joy Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Charlotte Walter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luis Roberto Almonacid
• Marina Norris
• Martin Peter Hudson
• Melanie Lewis
• Nicola Susan Briggs
• Peter McCusker
• Professor Hoda Judah Armani
• Shaheen Baig
• Stewart Drew
• dr Susan Chui Chi Baxter

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS.

• BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS income £138k
• BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED income £217k
• BRIGHTON THEATRE GROUP income £207k
• BRIGHTON AND HOVE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY LIMITED income £505k
• THE OLD MARKET CHARITABLE TRUST income £558k
• DONCASTER PERFORMANCE VENUE LIMITED income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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