Festive

Festive's purpose is to support Christian faith and witness in the UK's FE Colleges & Sixth Forms, aiming to envision a vibrant Christian presence there. It aims to achieve this by developing an interactive website where advice, prayer and resources can be offered to students, staff, chaplains, local churches and all those seeking involvement with the Christian faith at FE Colleges and Sixth Forms

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales

Area of benefit in its governing document: Undefined. in Practice, National.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £135,523 and spent £107,865.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 116%, from £62,818 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £135,523 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 80% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £45,000, awarded in 2024.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Pauline KendallChairAppointed 26 September 2017
• Alexander James ForrestAppointed 20 September 2021
• Jessica Phoebe StintonAppointed 6 October 2020
• Jonathan Robert FortnamAppointed 10 March 2020
• Joshua David Leith KendallAppointed 20 September 2022
• Monica Adassa DuncanAppointed 10 November 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1123966

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 May 2008

Governing document

TRUST DEED MADE 17 DECEMBER 2007

Website

www.festive.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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