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Registered charity · Chichester

Chichester Festival Theatre

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £20m (2026)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
West Sussex
Website
www.cft.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chichester Festival Theatre
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£20m£22m
  • 2025£23m£21m
  • 2024£17m£18m
Earlier years
  • 2023£17m£18m
  • 2022£11m£12m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2026: Government grants 10%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:- TO ENCOURAGE THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC TASTE IN DRAMA, OPERA, MUSIC, PAINTING AND THE OTHER ARTS BY PROVIDING, PRESENTING, PRODUCING, ORGANISING, MANAGING AND CONDUCTING PERFORMANCES OF PLAYS, OPERA, BALLET, FILMS, CONCERTS, CLASSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER SIMILAR EVENTS OF CULTURAL VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY. THIS SHALL BE THE MAIN OBJECT OF THE COMPANY.

Grants received

10 grants · £3,841,662 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

10
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 13Education/training 13Environment/conservation/heritage 2General 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.

Arts and leisure 28Education 6Tech and media 4

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£23.2m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 23.1 in 2021

184 from 138 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1088552
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON THE 2ND OF MAY 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 31ST OF AUGUST 2001 AND 19 SEPTEMBER 2005
Companies House
Company number 04210225 · Active
Contact on the register
01243784437 · marketing@cft.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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