CEDARWOOD FESTIVAL LIMITED

Registered charity 518744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARVEST FESTIVALS, KAIROS NE LTD

Organise Christian arts festivals incorporating all forms of all artistic expression by Christian artists (including, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, music, drama, dance, painting and sculpture) with the aim of using artisitic expression to spread the Christian gospel.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND TO GIVE ASSISTANCE TO OTHER CHARITABLE BODIESFOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the period with unrestricted reserves of £4,109, maintaining its policy target of one to four months' expenditure. This represents a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit of £12,513, driven by an excess of income over expenditure of £16,622. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern purposes.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/07/2023 (received 24/06/2024, 25 days after the 30/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 03/06/2022, 3 days after the 31/05/2022 due date); year ending 31/07/2020 (received 07/06/2021, 7 days after the 31/05/2021 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02194725 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PATTISSON, Richard Arthur Seymour — director, appointed 01/10/2022on trustee list
• NEVILLE, Vivienne — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list
• STRETTON-DOWNES, David Edward Gordon — director, appointed 01/10/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID STRETTON-DOWNES · trustee of 1 other charity
• EMMA STRETTON-DOWNES
• JAMES THOMPSON
• MICHAEL MCGARRY
• Martha McGarry
• RACHEL MERCER
• SEYMOUR PATTISSON
• VIVIENNE NEVILLE

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Darlington · Durham · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · North Yorkshire · Northumberland · South Tyneside

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CREATION FEST LIMITED.

• CREATION FEST LIMITED income £353k
• PETWORTH FESTIVAL income £594k
• BEWDLEY FESTIVAL LIMITED income £86k
• THE FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER income £32k
• PETHERTON ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• LUTON CARNIVAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £436k

Side by side with its peers

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