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petworth festival

The charity supports children and young people and the general public. Petworth Festival is a registered charity whose purpose is arts, culture, heritage, or science. It delivers its work by providing services. The charity is based in Petworth and operates in West Sussex.


This page summarises publicly available information about the charity, including its activities, beneficiaries, and registration details, based on official records.

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Activities & Mission

To promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in and appreciation of the arts and sciences including music, opera, literature, painting, drawing, architecture design and other arts and sciences in all their aspects in such ways as the charity shall from time to time determine. The charity is aware of its responsibilities under the public benefit requirement as set out in the accompany

Fundraising

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Financial Information

Latest Income
£559,946
Latest Expenditure
£528,338

Financial Efficiency

Program Ratio 91.9%
% of income going directly to charitable activities
Overall Efficiency 97.4%
% of expenditure going to programs (vs overhead)
Administrative Ratio 3.3%
Overhead (fundraising + governance) as % of total expenditure

Latest Financial Breakdown

Income Sources

Donations & Legacies £251,510
Charitable Activities £303,664
Other Trading £0
Investments £4,772
Other Income £0

Expenditure Categories

Charitable Expenditure £514,452
Raising Funds £13,886
Governance £3,600
Grants to Institutions £0
Other Expenditure £0

Financial Trend

Annual Returns

Financial YearIncomeExpenditureCharitable SpendingNet AssetsReservesStaff
2024£559,946£528,338£514,452£104,390£104,3904 / 30
2023£481,770£476,4080 / 50
2022£413,142£471,2870 / 0
2021£383,153£428,5220 / 100
2020£223,580£232,4590 / 100

Staff column shows: Employees / Volunteers