Registered charity · Hull
Freedom Festival Arts Trust
- 11 trustees
- Income £747k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Patricia Mary DalbyChair · since 2019
- Annabelle Baron-MedlamTrustee · since 2025
- Charlotte HarrisonTrustee · since 2025
- Daryl BeetonTrustee · since 2025
- Deborah Chidera ArikibeTrustee · since 2025
- Jenny HarrisTrustee · since 2025
- Mark MooreTrustee · since 2025
- Mike RossTrustee · since 2026
- Oyintare KagbalaTrustee · since 2025
- Robert James Louis PritchardTrustee · since 2022
- Tom Robert CurteisTrustee · since 2025
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
- East Riding Of Yorkshire
- Website
- www.freedomfestival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Freedom Festival Arts Trust
- Registered
- 2014
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£747k£697k
- 2024£639k£876k
- 2023£801k£1.1m
Earlier years
- 2022£915k£787k
- 2021£618k£404k
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS OF PERFORMANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, POETRY READING, SCULPTURE, PAINTING, HANDICRAFTS AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED ARTS; AND TO ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE SAID ARTS BY THE PRESENTATION OF CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS IN THE CITY OF KINGSTON UPON HULL (?THE CITY?) AND ITS ENVIRONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO EVENTS WHICH CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF THE CITY INCLUDING ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY THROUGH THE PIONEERING WORK OF HULL-BORN WILLIAM WILBERFORCE; PROVIDED THAT THE PROMOTION OF SUCH EVENTS IS UNDERTAKEN SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; ANDSUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.
Board analysis for researchers
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
- Patricia Mary Dalby Chair since 2019
- Annabelle Baron-Medlam since 2025
- Charlotte Harrison since 2025
- Daryl Beeton since 2025
- Deborah Chidera Arikibe since 2025
- Jenny Harris since 2025
- Mark Moore since 2025
- Mike Ross since 2026
- Oyintare Kagbala since 2025
- Robert James Louis Pritchard since 2022
- Tom Robert Curteis since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Patricia Mary Dalby Chair since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Annabelle Baron-Medlam since 2025
- Charlotte Harrison since 2025
- Daryl Beeton since 2025
- Deborah Chidera Arikibe since 2025
- Jenny Harris since 2025
- Mark Moore since 2025
- Mike Ross since 2026
- Oyintare Kagbala since 2025
- Tom Robert Curteis since 2025
Portfolio (2)
- Patricia Mary Dalby Chair since 2019
- Robert James Louis Pritchard since 2022
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.
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
0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1158439
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 MAY 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/11/2014AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 27/11/2015
- Companies House
- Company number 08530799 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01482214036 · info@freedomfestival.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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