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Arts Charities That specialise in Festival

Discover 445 Arts charities that specialise in festival. Use the search below to filter within these results.

445
Charities
£6,747,187,095
Total Income
£677,701
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Stratford And East London Music Festival

Arts

To organise a music festival annually

Latest Income: £16,256
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Marlborough Grant Maintained School Parent Teachers Association

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Research

Parent Teacher Association raising funds for the school with activities such as car boot sales, music festivals, quiz nights etc

Latest Income: £16,111
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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The Shifnal Carnival Committee

Arts

ORGANISING AN ANNUAL STREET CARNIVAL IN SHIFNAL, SHROPSHIRE AND FURTHERING LOCAL CHARITABLE CAUSES

Latest Income: £15,778
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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Winchester City Festival Choir

Arts

This is an amateur Choral Society which meets weekly during term times to rehearse choral works for performances in January/February each year and with other local choirs, as part of the Hampshire Choral Festival in May.

Latest Income: £15,655
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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The Friends Of Little Missenden Festival

Arts, Associations, Charitable activities

To advance and improve public education and appreciation of the arts, and in particular to give financial and practical support to the Little Missenden Festival - for full details of the objects of the charity see the copy constitution of the charity lodged with the Charity Commission.

Latest Income: £15,647
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Aylesbury Festival Choir

Arts, Beneficiary group, Social care

Provide regular opportunities for all singers to perform music from a wide choral repertoire. Provide and sustain a cultural asset for Aylesbury and the surrounding area. Foster children's knowledge and love of choral music by including them in concerts where appropriate. Secure financial support to enable the choir to expand it's repertoire and to improve its standards of performance.

Latest Income: £15,502
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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The Nailsworth Festival

Arts

The Nailsworth festival is an annual community festival which brings major performers to the area as well as providing a platform for local talent. The festival seeks to involve the local community in both the annual festival and through year round support for local arts groups and events.

Latest Income: £15,445
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Highbridge Festival Of The Arts

Arts

The Highbridge Festival of the Arts exists as a not for profit organisation. We offer local people of any age, gender, ethic group, able bodied or disabled, the opportunity to give a public performance of the performing arts. i.e. Dance, Speech and Drama and Music Vocal or Instrumental.

Latest Income: £15,369
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Memorial Hall Felinfach

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Facilities

The Felinfach Memorial Hall charities are used for the benefit of local activities as follows concerts, dramas, debating society sessions, whist drives, WI meeting, Merched Y Wawr, Eisteddfod youth clubs, bingo, dancing groups, polling station, Armistice Memorial Service including all other functions that benefits the local community.

Latest Income: £14,989
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Friends Of Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod

Arts, Associations

Support for the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod

Latest Income: £14,955
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Isle Of Wight Music, Dance, And Drama Festival

Arts, Education

The IWMDDF was established to advance, promote & encourage the study & practice of the arts of music, dance, speech & drama. It aims to introduce new classes to the festival, encouraging those of all abilities to enter. If funds allow, it would also like to highlight exceptionally talented students & provide them with opportunities to perform at other events, such as federation summer schools.

Latest Income: £14,897
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Wight
Status: Registered
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Bromley (kent) Festival Of Music And Speech

Arts

The charity runs an annual music and speech competitive festival.

Latest Income: £14,865
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Burton Fleming Village Hall Fund

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Facilities, Leisure, Religion

The hall is used for Indoor Bowls, Childrens Club, Whist Drives, private parties, dinners, discussion groups, Village Enhancement fundraising, Church eg Harvest Festival supper, also theatre group proffessional use it once a year. It is also hired out by various sporting clubs particularly in the summer eg cyclists.It has all facilities for the diabled.

Latest Income: £14,635
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Cleethorpes Festival Of Music And Words

Arts

The Charity is a Music Festival in Lincolnshire which provides sites for competitors to perform both musical and speech activities to be judged by recognised adjudicators.

Latest Income: £14,586
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Bristol Eisteddfod Association

Arts

To run the Bristol Festival of Music Speech & Drama, an annual event of artistic participation, competitions and workshops in music, speech and drama.

Latest Income: £14,419
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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Woking Music Festival

Arts, Charitable activities

THE CHARITY ENCOURAGES THE PARTICIPATION AND FURTHERS THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS OF MUSIC, SPEECH AND DRAMA. THE CHARITY HOLDS A FESTIVAL COMPETITION EACH YEAR IN CLASSES COVERING CHORAL, INSTRUMENTAL, PIANO, SPEECH AND VOCAL SKILLS AND PROMOTES THE ANNUAL WOKING YOUNG MUSICIAN COMPETITION CONCERT.

Latest Income: £14,416
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Longwell Green And Kingswood Performing Arts Festival

Arts, Beneficiary group

Provides a platform for children/young people to perform song, dance, speech & drama in competition with their peers with professional adjudication.

Latest Income: £14,093
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Monkton Combe Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Facilities, Leisure

Provides a hall and outdoor space for the local community for social and recreational purposes.Typical events include children's parties, private functions, Model Railway club, table tennis club, Harvest Festival supper, fund-raising entertainment. The Village Hall is also the local Polling Station.

Latest Income: £13,807
Areas of Operation: Bath And North East Somerset
Status: Registered
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Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival

Arts

The charity runs a competitive performing arts festival covering speech, drama, singing and instrumental music.

Latest Income: £13,764
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Devizes Junior Eisteddfod

Arts, Beneficiary group

Promotion of an annual competitive festival of the arts for young people aged 18 years and under. The charity also promotes other competitive events during the year.

Latest Income: £13,757
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Abertawe Festival For Young Musicians

Arts, Beneficiary group

To run a music festival for children up to the age of 18

Latest Income: £13,734
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Wharfedale Festival Of Performing Arts

Arts, Beneficiary group

Provide three major annual events relating to Speech & Drama, Special Needs and Piano competitions aimed at participants aged under 7 to over 70 in Speech and Drama, Music and Creative Writing, including opportunities for people with special educational needs.

Latest Income: £13,622
Areas of Operation: Bradford City
Status: Registered
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Oaks Community Hall

Arts, Facilities

Provision of village hall facilities

Latest Income: £13,582
Areas of Operation: Worcestershire
Status: Registered
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Coads Green Social Centre

Arts, Education, Leisure

The hall provides a location and facilities for a range of activities throughout the year (based on a monthly events programme) including: Community & Administrative meetings, village fete & flower festival, theatre & pantos, sports activities (indoor short mat bowls, badminton, table tennis, football), arts & crafts, music events, variety shows, adult education, coffee mornings etc

Latest Income: £13,340
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Carlisle And District Music And Drama Festival

Arts, Beneficiary group

We organise an annual musical and drama festival in Carlisle. Entries are mainly from young people but there are classes for adults. Musical classes cover singing and instrumental playing. We are members of the British and International Federation of Festivals for Music Dance and Speech.

Latest Income: £13,188
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many festival arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 445 registered festival arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the festival arts charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of festival arts charities?

Festival arts charities reported a combined annual income of £6.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for festival arts charities?

Across all festival arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of festival arts charities?

Festival arts charities have an average annual income of £678k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.