Registered charity (CIO) · Swansea
Gower Festival Society CIO
Gower Festival Society CIO is a registered charity (number 1198053) based in Swansea, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Edwina Hart MBE since 2024. Latest income £77k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
Also known as Gower Music Festival (Charity Commission)
- 13 trustees
- Income £77k (2025)
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Who leads it
- Edwina Hart MBEChair · since 2024
- Brian Peter KokelaarTrustee · since 2022
- Carl David Holt JohnsonTrustee · since 2022
- Deborah Catherine LloydTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Hugh Leslie Aldous DunthorneTrustee · since 2022
- John Francis MahoneyTrustee · since 2022
- Kathleen Sarah LawlorTrustee · since 2024
- Kevin Stephen SmithTrustee · since 2026
- Laurence Jerome CarpaniniTrustee · since 2022
- Martyn Spencer JenkinsTrustee · since 2022
- Peter Francis HorryTrustee · since 2024
- Sarah Margaret HarriesTrustee · since 2025
- William John AndersonTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- City Of Swansea
- Website
- www.gowerfestival.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2022
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£77k£56k
- 2024£113k£55k
- 2023£54k£47k
Earlier years
- 2022£35k£39k
Income trend, 2022 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLASSICAL MUSIC, BY THE PROVISION OF AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL AND OTHER ASSOCIATED EVENTS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.
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.
13 trustees on the board
- Edwina Hart MBE Chair since 2024
- Brian Peter Kokelaar since 2022
- Carl David Holt Johnson since 2022
- Deborah Catherine Lloyd since 2022
- Dr Hugh Leslie Aldous Dunthorne since 2022
- John Francis Mahoney since 2022
- Kevin Stephen Smith since 2026
- Kathleen Sarah Lawlor since 2024
- Laurence Jerome Carpanini since 2022
- Martyn Spencer Jenkins since 2022
- Peter Francis Horry since 2024
- Sarah Margaret Harries since 2025
- William John Anderson since 2022
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Edwina Hart MBE Chair since 2024
- Brian Peter Kokelaar since 2022
- Carl David Holt Johnson since 2022
- Deborah Catherine Lloyd since 2022
- John Francis Mahoney since 2022
- Kevin Stephen Smith since 2026
- Kathleen Sarah Lawlor since 2024
- Peter Francis Horry since 2024
- Sarah Margaret Harries since 2025
- William John Anderson since 2022
Portfolio (3)
- Dr Hugh Leslie Aldous Dunthorne since 2022
- Laurence Jerome Carpanini since 2022
- Martyn Spencer Jenkins 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.
Gaps to watch
- 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.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1198053
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 24 Feb 2022
- Contact on the register
- 01792390038 · info@gowerfestival.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 25th 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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