Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 1

Support Score: 8

Volatile income: -3
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 6

BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL LIMITED

Organisation and presentation of annual Brighton Early Music Festival, including concerts, workshops and other events; year-round educational activities relating to training in early music skills and other concerts and events.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

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 £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£127	£138	£-11	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/22	£217	£200	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	62
31/03/21	£91	£94	£-3	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/03/20?	£213	£225	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/01/19	£195	£183	£12	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	60
31/01/18	£236	£206	£30	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/17	£172	£180	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/16	£207	£210	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/15	£152	£151	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/14	£142	£135	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/13	£125	£162	£-37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/12	£148	£169	£-22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/11	£272	£185	£87	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/10	£131	£126	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/09	£144	£133	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/08	£105	£122	£-17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/07	£133	£126	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/06	£92	£94	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/05	£94	£79	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/01/04	£46	£45	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

www.bremf.org.uk

simon@bremf.org.uk

01273833746

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

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides services

Where it operates

Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
60 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

DCMS	£55,346
Garfield Weston Foundation	£15,000
Sussex Community Foundation	£8,000
Fenton Arts Trust	£3,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Fenton Arts Trust - Grant to Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF)
£3,000	01/07/2021	BREMF will support emerging musicians and provide vital training and performance opportunities to strenghten career paths within the sector.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	28/05/2021	BREMF Early Opera
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton Early Music Festival
£5,000	24/08/2020	Brighton Early Music Festival deliversdynamic events designed to make music from the last 1,000 years relevant and exciting to modern audiences. Funding will support for their digital festival, ....more Brighton Early Music Festival deliversdynamic events designed to make music from the last 1,000 years relevant and exciting to modern audiences. Funding will support for their digital festival, BREMF@home, through 10 high quality multi-media programmes showcasing professional and emerging artists filmed in Sussex locations and further afield, available to view across two weeks in October.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000	24/08/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
DCMS - Brighton Early Music Festival - Recovery & Resilience
£50,346	01/04/2020	To support Arts and Culture throughout England
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton Early Music Festival
£3,000	18/11/2019 2	Funding was provided to support a mini-tour to Rottingdean and Shoreham of 'Feast of Fools' - a community showcase and education project.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500	15/10/2019	Feast of Fools: A community showcase of music and dance
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Brighton Early Music Festival
£700	17/11/2017 1	BREMF produces dynamic events which make music from the last 1000 years relevant and exciting to modern audiences. Funding was provided to pay for artists fees and project management costs associated ....more BREMF produces dynamic events which make music from the last 1000 years relevant and exciting to modern audiences. Funding was provided to pay for artists fees and project management costs associated with taking live music into ten Brighton & Hove primary schools with the aim of performing to over 500 children across the city from East Brighton to Hove and Portslade.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Brighton Early Music Festival
£65,000	10/03/2010 36	Towards Project costs Towards the development of a training scheme for emerging early music ensembles.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 64-74

KATHARINE RHODES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

MIRELLA MARLOW (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director

CHRISTOPHER BARON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

NICOLAS CHISHOLM MBE, Occupation: Retired

PROFESSOR GAVIN DOUGLAS HENDERSON CBE, Other trusteeships: HAWKWOOD COLLEGE LIMITED, THE ANTONY DALE TRUST,

SIMON WILLIAM ALFORD MATHEWS Appointed: 2005, Occupation: Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/04/2003, number: 1097288
Registered at Companies House on 23/04/2003, number: 04741864

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Main office

HAM COTTAGE
ALBOURNE ROAD
HURSTPIERPOINT
HASSOCKS
BN6 9ES

Objectives

(A) TO ENCOURAGE, ADVANCE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN, APPRECIATION OF AND INVOLVEMENT IN PRE-CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THE PERFORMING ARTS BY PROMOTING PERIODICALLY A SERIES OF PUBLIC CONCERTS, DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS.(B) TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS IN PRE-CLASSICAL AND CLASSICAL MUSIC AND THE PERFORMING ARTS PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR YOUNGER PEOPLE AND TO ENCOURAGE THE GIVING OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCES BY SCHOOLS, MUSIC SOCIETIES, CHOIRS AND OTHER LIKE ORGANISATIONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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