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Registered charity · Bedford

Bedfordshire Festival of Music, Speech and Drama

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £51k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Bedford
Website
www.bedfordshirefestival.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£51k£45k
  • 2024£45k£44k
  • 2023£41k£43k
Earlier years
  • 2022£38k£43k
  • 2021£15k£14k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF MUSIC, SPEECH AND DRAMA, AND DANCE, IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

4.5y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 2Arts and leisure 1Other services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£51k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1064081
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 26/06/1997AS AMENDED ON 24/06/1999AS AMENDED ON 26/06/2003AS AMENDED ON 24/06/2004AS AMENDED ON 21/06/2007AS AMENDED ON 19/06/2008AS AMENDED ON 20/06/2013AS AMENDED ON 03/07/2014 as amended on 09 Jul 2026
Contact on the register
07824829097 · festival@bedfordshirefestival.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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