Registered charity · Preston
Blackburn Festival of Speech Music and Dance
Blackburn Festival of Speech Music and Dance is a registered charity (number 222789) based in Preston, governed by 3 trustees. Latest income £20k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
- 3 trustees
- Income £20k (2025)
The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.
Official record Charity Commission · updated 25th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password
Network
The large node is Blackburn Festival of Speech Music and Dance. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.
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
Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.
About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Blackburn With Darwen
- Website
- www.blackburnfestival.com (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The British and International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£20k£19k
- 2024£6k£13k
- 2023£7k£21k
Earlier years
- 2022£11k£12k
- 2021£0£0
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
ADVANCEMENT OF STUDY AND PRACTISE OF MUSIC, DANCING, ELOCUTION, LITERATURE AND ACTING BY MEANS OF COMPETITIVE FESTIVALS.
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.
3 trustees on the board
- Anne Collingridge since 2019
- Hannah Collingridge since 2024
- Neill Oldham since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Anne Collingridge since 2019
- Neill Oldham since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Anne Collingridge since 2019
- Hannah Collingridge since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Neill Oldham since 2019
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
- Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves
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
- 222789
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 NOVEMBER 1921
- Companies House
- Company number 00177744 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01772321415 · gensec.blackburnfestival@gmail.com
- 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data