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Registered charity · Essex

Essex Book Festival

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £109k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Recreation
Where
Essex, Thurrock, Southend-on-sea
Website
www.essexbookfestival.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Essex Book Festival
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£109k£104k
  • 2024£110k£117k
  • 2023£130k£121k
Earlier years
  • 2022£95k£98k
  • 2021£44k£40k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 14%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ESSEX BY PROMOTING LITERATURE, READING FOR PLEASURE AND SUPPORTING AND DEVELOPING WRITERS, INCLUDING YOUNG WRITERS, BY ANY MEANS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING THE ORGANISATION AND RUNNING OF READING AND WRITING RELATED EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT WILL BE OF INTEREST TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, INCLUDING VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES AND THE RUNNING OF AN ANNUAL BOOK FESTIVAL

Grants received

1 grant · £30,000 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.

4.5y median 0y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

13
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 14Education/training 14Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 14

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 12Business services 2Education 2

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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£110k latest income
18%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1143727
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/02/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 18/08/2011
Companies House
Company number 07538636 · Active
Contact on the register
01206 578584 · hello@essexbookfestival.org.uk.
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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