The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival

Registered charity 1127885 CIO Registered since 2009

Operates: Devon

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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.

11 trustees on the board

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

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 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£158k latest income

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.budlitfest.org.uk
Emailruth@budlitfest.org.uk
Phone01395266672
Address10 Fairfield Close, Exmouth, EX8 2BN

Finances

£158,386 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£36,622£48,293
2021£138,802£124,345
2022£137,674£148,776
2023£162,274£172,267
2024£158,386£147,207

What it does

What

Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Services

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN EAST DEVON BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS OF LITERATURE, POETRY, THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD, AND RELATED ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BY FOSTERING AND SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE BUDLEIGH SALTERTON LITERARY FESTIVAL.

Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION CONVERSIONDATED 30 JUN 2021

Trustees (11)

11trustees
79median age
1aged 70+

Connected charities (2)

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