Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

FRIENDS OF BUXTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 

The charity operate a membership scheme of Friends in order:TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY SUPPORTING THE BUXTON ARTS FESTIVAL LTD BY ANY MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/10/23£302,331£303,183£-8526
31/10/22£190,201£310,144£-119,9432
31/10/21£204,830£111,541£93,2895
31/10/20£228,810£122,666£106,1445
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

http://buxtonfestival.co.uk/

FriendsChairman@buxtonfestival.co.uk

0129870395

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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
GiG Classification
  • Social & legal advocacy
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides other finance
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/08/2019, number: 1184840
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
4 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from FRIENDS OF BUXTON FESTIVAL on 28/01/2021
Main office

3 The Square
Buxton
SK17 6AZ

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE ARTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY SUPPORTING THE BUXTON ARTS FESTIVAL LTD BY ANY MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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