## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] November 2024 To 31[st] October 2025**
## **Charity name: Burton Bradstock Festival of Music and Art**
## **Charity registration number: 1148898**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1. The advancement of the arts for the**
**public benefit by staging an annual**
**festival in Burton Bradstock, Dorset to**
**promote appreciation of music and art of**
**the highest standard.**
**2. To advance the education of the public**
**in the subjects of music and art.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The promotion of an annual exhibition of**
**the work of local artists and craftspeople**
**in the Burton Bradstock village hall, of a**
**Spring evening concert, and of a week**
**long series of musical performances in**
**the village church. Also, making**
**occasional grants to support local**
**organisations in furtherance of the**
**second objective set out above.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees are conscious of their**
**responsibilities as charitable trustees,**
**and of the need to have regard to the**
**Festival’s charitable objectives and to**
**public benefit.**|
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The trustees approve occasional grants**
**to other local organisations involved in**
**advancing the education of the public in**
**the subjects of music and art.**
**During the year 2024-5, grants totalling**
**£1,260 were made, as shown in the**
**annual accounts. These were £500**
**towards the refurbishment of the**
**performing and recording studio of the**
**Bridport Youth and Community Centre;**
**£500 to Bridport Primary School to**
**support an art project; £200 to The Living**
**Tree, to support an art project for those**
**living with cancer; and £60 to Art Shack,**
**which provides after school and weekend**|
|||**activities including art and crafts, for**
**autistic children and young adults.**|
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|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**By promoting an annual Festival, as**
**provided for in the charity’s objects, the**
**trustees aim to enrich the lives of all**
**those who have the opportunity to be**
**involved, both as volunteers and as**
**visitors to the exhibition and attenders of**
**Festival musical performances.**
**Also, by making occasional grants to**
**other local organisations, in furtherance**
**of the charity’s objects.**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**While the musical performers and the**
**Festival Musical Director and his**
**assistant are paid, all those locally**
**involved in the promotion of the Festival**
**are volunteers – trustees, organising**
**committee members, caterers, hosts,**
**ushers, exhibition attendants, and those**
**who set up and dismantle the stage and**
**prepare the church and the hall. There**
**must be some 60 or more local people**
**involved in some voluntary capacity or**
**other. The Festival is very heavily**
**dependent on the availability and**
**willingness of local volunteers to**
**contribute in this way.**|
|Other||**The trustees are most grateful for the**
**financial support of local sponsors and**
**for support in kind by a number of local**
**businesses.**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The Festival held a very well attended**
**Spring concert, in the village hall, on 6th**
**June 2025, being a piano and violin**
**recital.**
**We held a full week’s Festival from**
**Sunday 10th August to Friday 15th August.**
**We began with a tea party on the Sunday**
**afternoon in the Rectory garden,**
**featuring musical performances by the**
**newly established Burton Bradstock Male**
**Voice Choir, by some local amateur**
**performers, and by professional**
**musicians. Entrance to the party was**
**free: there was a modest charge for**
**refreshments. Then a Festival Evensong**
**in the village church, musically led by the**
**local church choir from a nearby village,**
**Litton Cheney.**
**There then followed a week of eleven**
**ticketed musical events held in the**
**church, performed by professional**
**musicians. These catered to a wide**
**variety of musical tastes– a Desert Island**|
**Discs session with Milos Milivojevic, the virtuoso accordionist, as castaway; a performance by a visiting folk trio; a jazz evening; an evening chamber music concert; an evening of film and television music, all with professional instrumentalists; lunchtime and late night chamber performances; all culminating in a Gala concert of classical works given by the Festival Orchestra on the Friday evening. There was also a well attended week long exhibition of work by local artists and crafts people, available for purchase, in the village hall.**
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The trustees are pleased that we have**
**again been able to hold a full week’s**
**Festival and to engage well with our local**
**community, including local amateur**
**musicians. To have done so keeps good**
**faith with those who have gone before us,**
**and accords well with our charitable**
**objectives.**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**As a result of ticket receipts, Friends’**
**subscriptions, sponsorship**
**contributions, and contributions from art**
**sales, the charity’s balances at the end of**
**the year had increased by over £3,600 to**
**£36,890. The trustees are conscious that**
**there needs to be a continuing focus on**
**ticket sales and receipts, and on**
**sponsorship income, particularly in view**
**of rising costs, in order for the Festival to**
**have a sustainable future.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**The trustees’ objective in relation to**
**financial reserves is to hold sufficient**
**balances to cover the costs of a year’s**
**Festival, and to achieve some savings**
**account interest while minimising risk.**|
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## **Financial Review**
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The accounts show that the charity held**
**balances of £36,890.66 at the end of the**
**reporting period, as against £32,240.01 at**
**the beginning.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As stated above, the trustees’ objective is**
**to build up balances to cover the costs of**
**promoting one year’s Festival, in case of**|
|||**unforeseen disaster (such as the Covid**
**pandemic).**|
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|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**No identified reserves, but see**
**information above on balances.**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None.**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No immediate uncertainties. But see**
**section on principal risks below.**|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Ticket sales, sponsorship and donations,**
**Friends’ subscriptions, and commission**
**on artists’ sales.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A.**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal source of income is**
**receipts from sales of tickets for musical**
**performances. We need to continue to**
**focus on ticket sales, in order to ensure**
**that the charity has a sustainable future.**
**The Festival is heavily dependent on a**
**band of local volunteers to run the**
**Festival, and particularly on the members**
**of the Music and Art Organising**
**Committees, and the trustees. Retaining**
**present volunteers and recruiting new**
**ones will be vital for the Festival’s**
**continuance. In particular, we need to**
**have regard to succession planning for**
**the principal volunteer roles. Not doing**
**so will present the principal existential**
**risk to the charity.**
**We are also of course heavily dependent**
**on our Musical Director, David Juritz. The**
**trustees are working with him to identify**
**a successor to work alongside him and to**
**succeed him when he decides to retire.**|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**The charity’s purposes and objectives**
**are set out in its governing document,**
**and are cited at the beginning of this**
**report.**|
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution adopted by the members on**
**9thAugust 2012.**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**An unincorporated association.**|
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|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**The trustees are appointed each year at**
**the Annual General meeting of members.**
**Between AGMs, the trustees can coopt,**
**until the next following AGM.**|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Each of the present trustees has been**
**associated with the Festival for some**
**years. We will provide a tailored ad hoc**
**programme of induction for any new**
**trustee.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Friends of the Festival, who have**
**paid their annual subscription, are**
**entitled to attend an annual general**
**meeting, which elects the trustees.**
**There are two organising committees,**
**who are accountable to the trustees –**
**one for the musical events and one for**
**the art exhibition.**
**A remunerated Musical Director arranges**
**and leads the musical programme.**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**Bridport Town Council sell tickets for the**
**music events, through their Tourist**
**Information Centre. They charge a**
**commission for doing so, to support their**
**running costs.**|
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|**Burton Bradstock Festival of Music and Art**|
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|Other name the charity uses|**Burton Bradstock Festival**|
|Registered charity number|**1148898**|
|Charity’s principal address|**c/o Bucklers Bid, Shipton Lane, Burton Bradstock,**
**Bridport, Dorset DT6 4NQ**|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||**David Hugh**
**Jenkins**|**Chair**||**The AGM of members**
**appoints all trustees.**|
||**Christopher**
**Edward Sundt**|**Secretary**|||
||**Keith David**
**Britton**|**Treasurer**|||
||**Jennifer Malyon**|**Chair of Music**
**Organising**
**Committee**|||
||**Elizabeth Mary**
**Orza**|**Chair of Art**
**Committee**|||
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||**Gordon Stewart**
**Thompson**||To 20thMay 2025||
||**Janet Margaret**
**Whitaker**||From 20thMay 2025|(Co-opted until formally
appointed at the AGM on 27th
November 2025)|
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None. held in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**adviser**|||
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
David Juritz – Musical Director
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **N/A**
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) D H Jenkins**
**Full name(s) David Hugh Jenkins**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc)**
**Date**
**14[th] March 2026**
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