Registered charity · Shoreham-by-Sea
Sussex Festival of Dance and Song
- 9 trustees
- Income £56k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Joanne Belinda Arnett-MorriceChair · since 2023
- Adele Elizabeth MasonTrustee · since 2023
- Caryl VineTrustee · since 2016
- Deborah JohnsonTrustee
- Jane ClarkTrustee · since 2017
- Joanna VinceTrustee · since 2015
- Maureen SmythTrustee · since 2016
- Rebecca ANN KirkhamTrustee
- Susan Allison HighstedTrustee · since 2015
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
- Website
- www.sussexfestival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Sussex Festival of Dance and Song
- Registered
- 2010
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£56k£35k
- 2024£69k£55k
- 2023£50k£29k
Earlier years
- 2022£48k£38k
- 2021£80£2k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BY MEANS OF COMPETITIVE FESTIVALS THE STUDY OF DANCE AND SONG BY ORGANISING AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND SONG.TO FOSTER THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC, DANCE AND SPEECH.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Joanne Belinda Arnett-Morrice Chair since 2023
- Adele Elizabeth Mason since 2023
- Caryl Vine since 2016
- Deborah Johnson
- Jane Clark since 2017
- Joanna Vince since 2015
- Maureen Smyth since 2016
- Rebecca ANN Kirkham
- Susan Allison Highsted since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Caryl Vine since 2016
- Jane Clark since 2017
- Joanna Vince since 2015
- Maureen Smyth since 2016
- Susan Allison Highsted since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Joanne Belinda Arnett-Morrice Chair since 2023
- Adele Elizabeth Mason since 2023
- Caryl Vine since 2016
- Deborah Johnson
- Jane Clark since 2017
- Joanna Vince since 2015
- Maureen Smyth since 2016
- Rebecca ANN Kirkham
- Susan Allison Highsted since 2015
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1138597
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 JULY 2010
- Companies House
- Company number 07311337 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07787556998 · becky_kirkham@hotmail.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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