Southampton Stage Dance Festival

Analysis

Southampton Stage Dance Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Southampton. It was registered in January 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to individuals and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Southampton Stage Dance Festival reported income of £27k and spending of £28k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £9,422 to £27k (+182%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 71%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Southampton Stage Dance Festival sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Scunthorpe and District Choral Society (£27k), Axminster and District Choral Society (£27k) and Great Alne and Kinwarton Memorial Hall (£27k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.