Guildford Book Festival

Analysis

Guildford Book Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Surrey. It was registered in October 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 08971550). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Guildford Book Festival reported income of £51k and spending of £59k, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £68k to £51k (-25%), an average of -6.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 104% 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, Guildford Book Festival sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Tudor House Museum Trust (£51k), Neuadd Goffa Llandudoch (St Dogmaels Memorial Hall) (£51k) and The Bradford Catholic Players (£51k).