ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

Registered charity 305999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CECIL SHARP HOUSE, E F D S S, ENGLISH FOLK DANCE & SONG SOCIETY, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY

A centre of excellence for the study, practice and dissemination of traditional English Folk song, dance and music at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library and Cecil Sharp House. Providing national and local outreach services to enable and increase access, celebrate diversity and promote equality

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £99,976 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a decrease of £57,579 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general funds decreased from £422,825 to £420,611, while total net assets stood at £2,620,266.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — English Folk Dance And Song Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jo Freya — Artistic Director (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).

• Weston Culture Fund — “In autumn 2022 EFDSS commissioned Folk Dance Remixed to produce Hope , their first stage show for indoor theatrical spaces, funded by the We…” (source page)
• Cockayne Foundation — “Within the Waves was co-commissioned with Serious and premiered at Cecil Sharp House as part of the EFJ London Jazz Festival 2015; it was su…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Hill
• Angharad Eve Cooper
• Elsa Cardona
• Fiona Margaret Butcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Edward Fishwick
• Jeremy Paul Iles
• Lisa Saper
• Marcie-Jane Hopkins
• Robyn Wallace Chicot

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION.

• THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION income £245k
• ALL ENGLAND DANCE income £136k
• A S HORNBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST CIO income £326k
• FOLK CAMPS SOCIETY LIMITED income £128k
• The English Language Centre income £6.8m
• HALSWAY MANOR SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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