Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 8

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

No volunteer policy: -2
No conflicts policy: -1
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Gov Income
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 8

TAUNTON FESTIVAL O F THE ARTS

Our Festival organises Music, Dance and Speech and Drama festivals , competitions and other occasional concerts and events for the people of Taunton and its locality.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received Government grants
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
10/09/23		£20,057	£22,272	£-2,215	50
10/09/22		£33,464	£23,078	£10,386	60
10/09/21		£1,806	£1,412	£394	15
10/09/20		£18,007	£18,569	£-562	50
10/09/19	*	£29,684	£33,057	£-3,373	55

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 6 years

https://vanilla-bagpipe-alhl.squarespace.com/

info@tauntonfestival.org.uk

01823286895

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Somerset,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
50 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ALISON WILSON MCRAE PORTER MBE Appointed: 2021

CHRISTINE NICOLA BEATTIE Appointed: 2022

DOUGLAS ERNEST HUCKLE Appointed: 2017

HEATHER JAYNE HORNSBY Appointed: 2023

JOHN MARTIN PARKER (Chair) Appointed: 2017

KATHRYN ANN CRESSWELL Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: THE TAUNTON AID IN SICKNESS FUND, IN ECCLESIA,

MATTHEW ALEXANDER JOSEPH KIRBY Appointed: 2018

MICHAEL JAMES WHITFIELD CHAPMAN Appointed: 2018

NAOMI ALICE PORTER Appointed: 2020

RACHEL EVE SMITH Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/07/2018, number: 1179098

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR19: 264 days late,

Main office

Cranford
Bishops Hull Road
Bishops Hull
Taunton
TA1 5EW

Objectives

THE CIO'S OBJECT IS TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PERFORMING ARTS GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MUSIC, DANCE AND SPEECH AND DRAMA. IT SEEKS TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECT BY ORGANISING FESTIVALS, COMPETITIONS AND OTHER OCCASIONAL CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS OR SUCH LIKE EVENTS.

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