The Ayot St Lawrence Festival

Analysis

The Ayot St Lawrence Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Welwyn. It was registered in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under environment and conservation. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Ayot St Lawrence Festival reported income of £86k and spending of £66k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £45k to £86k (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 4,574 England and Wales charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, The Ayot St Lawrence Festival sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Campaign to Protect Rural England, Gloucestershire CIO (£85k), Swinden Quarry Trust (£86k) and The London Trolleybus Preservation Society Ltd (£85k).