Registered charity · Alresford
The Grange Festival
- 9 trustees
- Income £4.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Bindesh Premchand ShahTrustee · since 2023
- Douglas RaeTrustee · since 2023
- Katharine Helen ByrneTrustee · since 2024
- Malcolm John Le MayTrustee · since 2016
- Nicholas Timothy AllanTrustee · since 2019
- Oliver Guy Ruffman BainesTrustee · since 2023
- Peter John WoodsTrustee · since 2024
- QC Rosamund Bernays QCTrustee · since 2016
- Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DLTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Hampshire
- Website
- www.thegrangefestival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Grange Festival
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£4.0m£4.1m
- 2024£3.7m£4.0m
- 2023£3.6m£3.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£4.0m£3.6m
- 2021£2.6m£3.3m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 9%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROMOTION, SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ART OF MUSIC AND DRAMA ( INCLUDING OPERA, MUSIC, DRAMA, DANCING, SINGING AND ALL FORMS CONSTITUTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF MUSIC) AND IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND APPRECIATION OF OPERA.NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND / OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.
Grants received
5 grants · £370,000 total360Giving 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £350,000
- Woodward Charitable Trust · £20,000 (4 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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
- Bindesh Premchand Shah since 2023
- Douglas Rae since 2023
- Katharine Helen Byrne since 2024
- Malcolm John Le May since 2016
- Nicholas Timothy Allan since 2019
- Oliver Guy Ruffman Baines since 2023
- Peter John Woods since 2024
- QC Rosamund Bernays QC since 2016
- Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Malcolm John Le May since 2016
- Nicholas Timothy Allan since 2019
- QC Rosamund Bernays QC since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Bindesh Premchand Shah since 2023
- Douglas Rae since 2023
- Malcolm John Le May since 2016
- Oliver Guy Ruffman Baines since 2023
- Peter John Woods since 2024
Portfolio (4)
- Katharine Helen Byrne since 2024
- Nicholas Timothy Allan since 2019
- QC Rosamund Bernays QC since 2016
- Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL since 2023
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
0.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.2 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1165859
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16 OCT 2015
- Companies House
- Company number 09828929 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01962791020 · info@thegrangefestival.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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