Gower Festival Society CIO

Festival of music and the arts

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

In Wales

• City of Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £76,865 and spent £56,131.

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 118%, from £35,183 in the year to 31 December 2022 to £76,865 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 73% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 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 December 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

13 trustees run the charity.

• Edwina Hart MBEChairAppointed 26 July 2024
• Brian Peter KokelaarAppointed 20 January 2022
• Carl David Holt JohnsonAppointed 20 January 2022
• Deborah Catherine LloydAppointed 20 January 2022
• Dr Hugh Leslie Aldous DunthorneAppointed 20 January 2022
• John Francis MahoneyAppointed 20 January 2022
• Kathleen Sarah LAWLORAppointed 15 October 2024
• Kevin Stephen SmithAppointed 11 September 2026
• Laurence Jerome CarpaniniAppointed 22 October 2022
• Martyn Spencer JenkinsAppointed 20 January 2022
• Peter Francis HorryAppointed 15 March 2024
• Sarah Margaret HARRIESAppointed 17 January 2025

Of the last 4 annual returns that were due, 4 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

1198053

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 February 2022

Governing document

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 24 Feb 2022

Website

www.gowerfestival.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

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

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