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Registered charity · Gloucestershire

Cheltenham Festivals

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £7.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Gloucestershire
Website
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cheltenham Festivals
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.5m£7.2m
  • 2024£7.1m£7.0m
  • 2023£6.8m£7.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.0m£6.9m
  • 2021£4.2m£4.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE ARTS AND SCIENCES GENERALLY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY MEANS OF FESTIVALS OF THE ARTS, SCIENCES AND ENTERTAINMENTS IN THE BOROUGH OF CHELTENHAM AND ELSEWHERE IN SUCH MANNER, AT SUCH TIMES, IN SUCH PLACES AND SO OFTEN AS THE BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL THINK FIT AND DO ALL SUCH THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL OR NECESSARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF SUCH OBJECTS.

Grants received

15 grants · £2,177,474 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

Most recent

  • Barnwood Trust £100,0002024-09-03
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £25,0002022-03-31
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £937,2542022-03-09
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-03-04
  • Thirty Percy Foundation £220,0002020-08-07
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12Education/training 12Disability 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 14Business services 3Professional services 2

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.2 in 2021

47 from 51 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.
4%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
251765
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/06/1948AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/02/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/03/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/05/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/09/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 31/01/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/09/2012 AS AMENDED ON 10 DEC 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 JUL 2022
Companies House
Company number 00456573 · Active
Contact on the register
01242850270 · HELENA.BIBBY@CHELTENHAMFESTIVALS.ORG
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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