TAUNTON FESTIVAL O F THE ARTS

Charity Number: 1179098
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Our Festival organises Music, Dance and Speech and Drama festivals , competitions and other occasional concerts and events for the people of Taunton and its locality.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 July 2024

Total income: £24,466
Total expenditure: £22,378

People

9 Trustee(s)

40 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

One or more of the employees were formerly trustees

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:
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
  • Somerset

Governance

Registration history:
  • 06 July 2018: CIO registration
  • 18 July 2018: Funds received from 900556 TAUNTON AND SOMERSET MUSIC AND DRAMA FESTIVAL
Organisation type:
CIO
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
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
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

9 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Heather Jayne Hornsby Chair 28 June 2023
None on record
Kate Jane Rippin Trustee 05 June 2024
None on record
Laura Jayne Sewell Trustee 05 June 2024
None on record
Rachel Eve Smith Trustee 28 February 2024
None on record
Kathryn Ann Cresswell Trustee 22 February 2023
THE TAUNTON AID IN SICKNESS FUND
Received: On time
IN ECCLESIA
Received: On time
Christine Nicola Beattie Trustee 30 November 2022
None on record
Alison Wilson McRae Porter MBE Trustee 20 September 2021
None on record
Naomi Alice Porter Trustee 01 December 2020
None on record
MICHAEL JAMES WHITFIELD CHAPMAN Trustee 06 July 2018
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 10/09/2020 10/09/2021 10/09/2022 10/09/2023 31/07/2024
Total gross income £18.01k £1.81k £33.46k £20.06k £24.47k
Total expenditure £18.57k £1.41k £23.08k £22.27k £22.38k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A £1.26k 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 July 2024 21 February 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 July 2024 21 February 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 10 September 2023 24 November 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 10 September 2023 24 November 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 10 September 2022 24 December 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 10 September 2022 24 December 2022 On Time
Annual return 10 September 2021 09 October 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 10 September 2021 09 October 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 10 September 2020 09 July 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 10 September 2020 09 July 2021 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.

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 06 Jul 2018

Charitable objects

THE CIO'S OBJECT IS TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PERFORMING ARTS GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MUSIC, DANCE AND SPEECH AND DRAMA. IT SEEKS TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECT BY ORGANISING FESTIVALS, COMPETITIONS AND OTHER OCCASIONAL CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS OR SUCH LIKE EVENTS.

Contact information

Address:
34 Clifford Avenue
TAUNTON
Somerset
TA2 6DJ
Phone:
07848850388
Email:
info@tauntonfestival.org.uk
Website:

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