SUTTON MUSIC FESTIVAL

Registered charity 298820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organises an annual music festival

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF MUSIC, SPEECH AND DRAMA AND DANCE IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE SUTTON LB

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: Sutton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£19k

Latest spending

£18k

Registered

1988

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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.

Complaints handling
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2026

Volunteers: 24

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2025

Volunteers: 15
Government income: £11,880 — contracts £5,940 (6), grants £5,940 (6); 55% of the £21,788 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2024

Government income: £50 — grants £50 (1); under 1% of the £16,520 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DAVID DRANE
Evelyn Druce
Georgina Roberts
Hiroko Yoshida
Josephine Periam
LAURA DRANE
Stephen Penneck

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

Operates in: Sutton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/01/2026	£19k	£18k
31/01/2025	£22k	£19k
31/01/2024	£17k	£18k
31/01/2023	£15k	£15k
31/01/2022	£12k	£11k

Common questions

Who funds SUTTON MUSIC FESTIVAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SUTTON MUSIC FESTIVAL as a grant recipient include HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	Unverified read£3k	Concerts
HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£3k	Concerts
HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£2k	Concerts
HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£2k	Concerts
HUMPHREY RICHARDSON TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k	Concerts

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.