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Registered charity (CIO) · Oxfordshire

The Henley Festival Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £4.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough and more
Website
henley-festival.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.6m£4.5m
  • 2024£4.0m£4.1m
  • 2023£4.1m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.2m£3.8m
  • 2021£3.0m£2.8m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS (WHICH FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE SHALL INCLUDE MUSICAL, VISUAL, LITERARY, DRAMATIC OR ANY OTHER ARTS) AND THE PROMOTION AND WIDENING OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND INTEREST IN THE ARTS IN HENLEY-ON-THAMES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND OTHER SUCH PLACES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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.

8 trustees on the board

5.5y median 7y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Education/training 3The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Professional services 16Tech and media 6Finance 5

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£4.0m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.0 in 2020

9 from 7 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1174338
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 22 Aug 2017 as amended on 03 Mar 2025
Contact on the register
01491843400 · kim@henley-festival.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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