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Ilminster Literary Festival

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1169618
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 22, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Oct. 11, 2016
Legal form
CIO

Address

Address
7 Greenway
Dowlish Ford
Ilminster
Somerset
TA19 0PJ

Activities

Planning, researching and delivering a Literary Festival in Ilminster. The festival includes many topics, speakers, authors, poets and journalists. We aim to involve as many schools as we can in some way and we offer a wide variety of venues in the locality and even wider neighbourhood of villages and hamlets. We use several hotels, restaurants,sports clubs and indeed a Masonic Lodge.

Objects: The Trustees Shall Hold The Capital And Income Of The Trust Fund Upon Trust For The Advancement Of Education By Promoting And Providing Opportunities For The Appreciation, Understanding And Enjoyment Of Literature And The Arts And, In Particular, Through The Promotion And Running Of A Literary Festival In Ilminster To Provide Opportunities For The General Public To Read For Pleasure And To Increase Their Knowledge, Understanding And Appreciation Of Any Matters Of Literary, Historic, Artistic, Architectural, Aesthetic Or Scientific Interest.

Classification

How
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who
Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, The General Public/mankind

Geography

Local Authority
Somerset

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2025 July 22, 2026On time £18,171 £19,628
Dec. 31, 2024 July 25, 2025On time £13,170 £11,685
Dec. 31, 2023 Sept. 7, 2024On time £13,310 £10,875
Dec. 31, 2022 Aug. 9, 2023On time £14,930 £14,053
Dec. 31, 2021 Aug. 19, 2022On time £7,554 £8,398
July 31, 2020 Sept. 20, 2020 £280 £2,309

Trustees

Name Appointed
Gerald Edward John Hawke April 1, 2025
Gillian Mary Walker Nov. 1, 2016
Ian Munro Oct. 1, 2018
Julie Fowler Aug. 21, 2026
Kenneth Richard Cooper Sept. 8, 2020
Susan Collard Sept. 8, 2020