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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • No PartB
    • Large volunteer base +3
    • Overall weighted support: +2
    Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

    COWBRIDGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

    Cowbridge Music Festival is an annual festival, held in September in the Vale of Glamorgan, of chamber, instrumental and vocal music, jazz and folk music. Providing opportunities for young musicians it includes an extensive schools outreach programme, concerts given by young musicians and the Chamber Music Seminar. The Festival Fringe was started in 2018 to give opportunities to local music groups
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
    • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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    Y/E Income
    £k    		 Spending
    £k    		 Surplus/
    Deficit £k    		 Fundraising
    Cost £k    		 Total
    Funds £k    		 Unrestricted
    Funds £k    		 Mths
    Rsrvs    		 Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/12/23£100£98£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/22£89£81£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/21£65£64£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/20£19£11£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/19£83£84£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/18£79£72£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/17£66£70£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
    31/12/16£113£103£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 9 years

    www.cowbridgemusicfestival.co.uk

    info@cowbridgemusicfestival.co.uk

    01446773824

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    UN SDGs
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    Listed activities
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Education/Training
    GiG Classification
    • Performing and visual arts
    How it operates
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Bridgend, Cardiff, Vale Of Glamorgan,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind

    Who supports them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months    		 To be used for
    The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
    £6,000 10/07/2023
    towards core costs of delivering the 2023 festival
    The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
    £5,000 08/07/2021
    towards the return of the music festival in 2021 (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
    Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Cowbridge Music Festival
    £2,000 11/03/2021
    CMF Young Artists' Recital 2021: promoting two Welsh artists at the start of their chareers, pianist Luke Jones and composer Sarah L Lewis.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (7)
    Current Trustees appointed

    • ANDREW ELLIOTT Appointed: 2010
    • DAVID MANSEL JOHN Appointed: 2021
    • ELUNED PIERCE Appointed: 2012
    • IOLO TOMOS WHELAN Appointed: 2019
    • MARY ELLIOTT ROSE (Chair) Appointed: 2010
    • SAMANTHA EDWARDS Appointed: 2010
    • TESSA SHELLENS Appointed: 2012
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/07/2015, number: 1162524
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • 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
    Filing Record
    8 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Brynawel
    Trerhyngyll
    Cowbridge
    CF71 7TN

    Objectives

    TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AND OTHER ARTS, PRINCIPALLY BY ARRANGING AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving

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