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Registered charity · London

English Folk Dance and Song Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.efdss.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The English Folk Dance and Song Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 37%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1.1 TO PRESERVE ENGLISH FOLK DANCES AND SONGS AND OTHER FOLK MUSIC (INCLUDING SINGING GAMES), FOLK TALES AND FOLK DRAMA, TO MAKE THEM KNOWN AND TO ENCOURAGE THE PRACTICE OF THEM IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORMS;2.1.2 TO PROMOTE THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF ENGLISH FOLK DANCES, SONGS AND MUSIC, TALES AND DRAMA BY MEANS OF DANCES, SCHOOLS CLASSES , EXAMINATIONS, LECTURES, DEMONSTRATIONS, FESTIVALS AND OTHER LIKE METHODS;2.2.3 TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH INTO AND STUDY OF THE ORIGINS DEVELOPMENT AND TRADITIONAL PRACTICE OF ENGLISH FOLK DANCES, SONGS AND MUSIC TALES AND DRAMA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE OF OTHER COUNTRIES.

Grants received

17 grants · £1,485,668 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.

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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

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 9Education/training 9

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

Education 11Tech and media 7Professional services 3

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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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£1.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

2.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.3 in 2021

22 from 22 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
305999
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/11/1957AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/11/1970AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/11/1973AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/03/1976AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/03/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/03/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12 NOV 2016 as amended on 09 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 00297142 · Active
Contact on the register
02074852206 · secretary@efdss.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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