Registered charity · Battle
Battle Festival
- 4 trustees
- Income £24k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
Network
The large node is Battle Festival. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Sign in free to explore further.
Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- East Sussex
- Website
- www.battlefestival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£24k£40k
- 2024£36k£35k
- 2023£38k£36k
Earlier years
- 2022£19k£24k
- 2021£24k£12k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE CREATIVE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY RUNNING AN OPEN ACCESS ARTS AND CULTURE FESTIVAL IN THE TOWN OF BATTLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.
Grants received
12 grants · £95,795 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £73,565 (8 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £11,230 (2 grants)
- Sussex Community Foundation · £11,000 (2 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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 trustees on the board
- David Furness Chair since 2016
- Claire Davies since 2019
- Jill Gyngell since 2016
- Melanie Julia Polwhele Powell since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- David Furness Chair since 2016
- Claire Davies since 2019
- Jill Gyngell since 2016
- Melanie Julia Polwhele Powell since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- David Furness Chair since 2016
- Claire Davies since 2019
- Jill Gyngell since 2016
- Melanie Julia Polwhele Powell since 2018
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
- 1168104
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 23 JUL 2014
- Contact on the register
- 07377386468 · info@battlefestival.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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data