Winchester Chamber Music Festival Trust

Analysis

Winchester Chamber Music Festival Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hampshire. It was registered in January 2015, 11 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 incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending September 2025, Winchester Chamber Music Festival Trust reported income of £52k and spending of £57k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £32k to £52k (+65%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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, Winchester Chamber Music Festival Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% 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 Kinver Light Operatic Society (£52k), Cumbria-Westmorland Federation of Women's Institutes (£52k) and Hatfield Woodhouse Village Hall and Old Folks Centre (£52k).