The British and International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech
Charity number: 213125
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The lead organisation of the amateur festival movement for the performing arts of music, dance and speech. Offering stages for performance to amateurs locally, regionally and nationally, always combined with educational feedback from an experienced professional adjudicator. Membership: UK & International amateur festivals; professional adjudicators; friends who support the educational work.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £178,749
Total expenditure: £194,430
People
8 Trustee(s)
40 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Gibraltar
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- Ireland
- Isle Of Man
- Jersey
- Malta
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
Governance
Registration history:
- 02 July 1968: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- BIFF (Working name)
- PERFORMANCE (Working name)
- THE BRITISH & INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS (Working name)
- THE BRITISH & INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS FOR MUSIC DANCE & SPEECH (Working name)
- THE BRITISH FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS (Working name)
- BRITISH FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS FOR MUSIC DANCE AND SPEECH (Previous name)
- BRITISH FEDERATION OF MUSIC FESTIVALS (Previous name)
- THE BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS (Previous name)
- THE BRITISH FEDERATION OF FESTIVALS FOR MUSIC DANCE AND SPEECH (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Investment
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
8 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Kate Ward | Chair | 21 May 2015 |
|
|
||||
| Fiona McLean-Buechel | Trustee | 04 September 2024 |
|
|||||
| Annette Brown | Trustee | 08 May 2024 |
|
|
||||
| Christopher Philip Blurton | Trustee | 12 May 2023 |
|
|||||
| Jill Elisabeth Wright | Trustee | 02 September 2022 |
|
|||||
| Priscilla Louise Morris | Trustee | 19 February 2021 |
|
|
||||
| Yvonne Linda Baisden | Trustee | 06 February 2020 |
|
|
||||
| John Logan | Trustee | 30 October 2013 |
|
|||||
Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Total gross income | £197.83k | £137.04k | £126.14k | £164.38k | £178.75k | |
|
|
Total expenditure | £211.99k | £140.72k | £122.14k | £169.55k | £194.43k | |
|
|
Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
|
|
Income from government grants | N/A | £47.63k | £10.84k | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 10 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 10 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 15 January 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 15 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 06 January 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 24 October 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 21 December 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 19 October 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 31 January 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 18 December 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |