Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 4

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 10

THAXTED FESTIVAL FOUNDATION

The charity's principal object is the arranging and staging of the Thaxted Festival. To promote and assist in the advancement of education in the Arts and Crafts including the arts of music and drama. To extend and increase the appreciation, knowledge and understanding of the arts and crafts in all their forms.

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 a grant maker
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

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 £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£107	£113	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	25
31/12/21		£71	£76	£-4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/20		£42	£38	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/19		£115	£123	£-9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/18		£129	£131	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	76
31/12/17		£131	£107	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16		£114	£100	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15		£93	£91	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14		£93	£91	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13		£85	£95	£-10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12		£106	£90	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11		£109	£84	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10		£103	£98	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	*	£116	£100	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08		£125	£113	£12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07		£114	£103	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06		£112	£98	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£108	£102	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£107	£97	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 37 years

www.thaxtedfestival.co.uk

music@thaxtedfestival.co.uk

01371831421

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Performing and visual arts

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
25 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Thaxted Festival Foundation
£2,500	18/04/2023	towards professional fees to enable a music programme and performance to take place with primary school aged children in Thaxted
Essex Community Foundation - Part-funding of Music Education Project at Joyce Frankland Academy
£3,500	20/03/2018 0	Towards a music education project for secondary school students as part of the 2018 Thaxted Festival

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 55-81

ANN MOORE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Solicitor

JAMES HEW FALLAS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Engineer

PAUL JEREMY CHRISTOPHER MEADER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Television Producer

ANDREW JENKINS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director

CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL COLLINS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeships: BOLFORD STREET HALL, THAXTED, THAXTED DAY CENTRE,

JANET ELIZABETH GROGAN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired

MIRANDA CEINWEN SANDISON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: LORD MAYNARD'S CHARITY,

PETER RICHARD DONOVAN (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Businessman

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 17/03/1987, number: 296329
Registered at Companies House on 18/02/1987, number: 02101271

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR09: 3 days late,

Main office

10 Watling Street
Thaxted
DUNMOW
CM6 2PE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ARTS AND CRAFTS INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCING, MIME, PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND THE GRAPHIC ARTS AND LITERATURE AND POETRY, AND TO EXTEND AND INCREASE THE APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN ALL THEIR FORMS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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