GREENBELT FESTIVALS
Registered charity 289372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Greenbelt is an independent Christian charity working to express love, creativity and justice through the arts and contemporary culture in the light of the Christian gospel.Greenbelt holds an annual festival celebrating arts, faith and justice. Donations are distributed through small and medium-size grants to initiatives, inspired by faith, that liberate creativity in the face of injustice.
Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted loss of £12,099 for the year, with closing net unrestricted fund assets of £310,936. The trustees note that while reserves remain above the stated minimum policy target of £250,000, the gradual decline in reserves and unsustainable festival finances have prompted a decision to relocate the festival. The going concern basis is supported by continued support from the 'Angels' donor community and income from the Nest office hub.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Trustee consultancy fees
“During the year £Nil (2024 : £4,750 ) was paid to K Roberts, a trustee of the charity, in respect to consultancy fees.” — page 44
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
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.
- SILVEY, Benjamin Hugh — director, appointed 16/03/2024on trustee list
- JONES, Louise Dawn — director, appointed 10/11/2023on trustee list
- BROWN, Simon John — director, appointed 10/11/2023on trustee list
- PITTAM-SMITH, Samantha Anne — director, appointed 25/11/2022on trustee list
- GRETTON, Nicholas George — director, appointed 16/07/2022on trustee list
- CHAPMAN, Elizabeth Clare — director, appointed 06/11/2021on trustee list
- ROBERTS, Katherine Lucy Michelle — director, appointed 30/10/2021on trustee list
- LATCHMORE, Georgia — director, appointed 13/07/2019on trustee list
- BOOT, Molly Georgina — director, appointed 13/07/2019on trustee list
- TOMLINSON, David William, Rev — director, appointed 16/03/2019on trustee list
- SOLANKY, Benjamin Rajesh — director, appointed 23/03/2018on trustee list
- WILSON, Graham Matthew — director, appointed 09/02/2018on trustee list
- MCDONALD, Chinemerem Sharon Onyinyechi — director, appointed 15/07/2017on trustee list
- HARRIS, Katharine Jane — secretary, appointed 29/04/2024
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title 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 31/12/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£273k
Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (43% 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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is GREENBELT FESTIVALS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an unrestricted loss of £12,099 for the year, with closing net unrestricted fund assets of £310,936. The trustees note that while reserves remain above the stated minimum policy target of £250,000, the gradual decline in reserves and unsustainable festival finances have prompted a decision to relocate the festival. The going concern basis is supported by continued support from the 'Angels' donor community and income from the Nest office hub. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.
Charities like this
Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREEN STREET GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.