WINCHESTER POETRY FESTIVAL

Charity number: 1150997
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

The first major festival in the south of England dedicated to poetry.It is intended to celebrate poetry within a civic environment in order to ensure the widest possible degree of public awareness and enjoyment. The festival aims to establish a structure, style and necessary partnerships for it to become a biennial event after the inaugural festival of 2014.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023

Total income: £33,338
Total expenditure: £44,988

Total income includes £2,375 from 2 government grant(s)

People

10 Trustee(s)

14 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

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
  • Recreation
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
  • Hampshire

Governance

Registration history:
  • 27 February 2013: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Trust
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease 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

10 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Aisling O'Toole Trustee 22 January 2024
None on record
Jo Fisher Trustee 22 January 2024
None on record
Jeremy Wikeley Trustee 22 January 2024
None on record
Abanti Mukhopadhyay Chakrabarty Trustee 27 June 2023
None on record
Susmita Bhattacharya Trustee 09 November 2020
None on record
JANE VERSTEEG BRYANT Trustee 09 November 2020
THE FRIENDS OF ST JOHN'S CHURCH, NORTHINGTON, HAMPSHIRE
Received: On time
Jillian Saucier Trustee 06 January 2020
None on record
Bear Shaw Trustee 06 January 2020
None on record
Jonathan Whitfield Trustee 05 June 2017
None on record
Rupert Gerald Nunes Nabarro Trustee 02 November 2015
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2019 31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023
Total gross income £57.19k £47.65k £50.54k £22.30k £33.34k
Total expenditure £28.88k £33.80k £48.64k £38.81k £44.99k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants £33.59k £20.20k £9.54k £500 £2.38k

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 December 2023 17 July 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2023 17 July 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2022 01 July 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2022 Not Required
Annual return 31 December 2021 02 August 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 02 August 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2020 17 May 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2020 17 May 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2019 18 March 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2019 18 March 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

TRUST DEED DATED 14 JAN 2013

Charitable objects

1. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO POETRY 2. TO ENCOURAGE THE ENJOYMENT, APPRECIATION AND PRACTICE OF LITERATURE, THE BENEFICIARIES BEING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES THROUGHOUT HAMPSHIRE.

Contact information

Address:
c/o Faculty of Arts
University of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester
SO22 4NR
Phone:
07557236890
Email:
hello@winchesterpoetryfestival.org
Website:

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