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Registered charity · North Yorkshire

Harrogate International Festival Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Bradford City, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City and more
Website
www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Harrogate International Festival Limited
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2021£688k£589k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, FURTHER, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN GENERAL AND MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY AND VISUAL ARTS IN PARTICULAR SO FAR AS SUCH OBJECTS MAY BE CHARITABLE.

Grants received

6 grants · £109,000 total

360Giving 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 · £80,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £25,000 (3 grants)
  • Sir George Martin Trust · £4,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £80,0002022-03-14
  • Sir George Martin Trust £2,0002019-06-28
  • Sir George Martin Trust £2,0002018-06-29
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002011-04-14
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002008-06-19
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

6.6y median 7y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Arts and leisure 11Other services 1Professional services 1

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£1.2m 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.6 in 2020

8 from 5 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
244861
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 SEPTEMBER 1965 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 13 JULY 1970, 8 FEBRUARY 1979, AND 14 JANUARY 2002, AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20 AUGUST 1991
Companies House
Company number 00858029 · Active
Contact on the register
01423562303 · info@harrogate-festival.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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