## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 May 2020 30 April 2021 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1162157
Chiddingly Festival
**Charity's principal address** Chauntlers Highlands Lane Chiddingly, Lewes **Postcode BN8 6HD**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**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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|Jeni Longley|Chair|||
|Simon Grigg|Treasurer|||
|Thomas Warren|Secretary|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by the members Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To encourage the enjoyment appreciation and participation in all forms of the arts and in craft skills to the advancement of education for the general public benefit.
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The charity organises an annual arts festival in the village of Chiddingly, East Sussex, which takes place in the autumn. It also organises a pantomime in the same village, which is performed in January. The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Due to uncertainties created by Covid 19, the anticipation of concerns **Summary of the main** about Covid 19 depressing demand for events, and the possibility of **achievements of the charity** restrictions on such gatherings being imposed by the government, it was **during the year** decided not to hold a Festival in 2019 or a pantomime in January 2020.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity aims to hold sufficient reserves to cover anticipated losses, if any, which might arise during the following year’s festival.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Simon Grigg **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 24 January 2022
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