Brundibar Arts Festival

Analysis

Brundibar Arts Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in December 2015, 11 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and human rights/religious or racial harmony/equality or diversity, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 09619920). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Brundibar Arts Festival reported income of £47k and spending of £39k, spending 82% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £14k to £47k (+237%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2022, when income rose by 183%. Over the whole period it spent 95% 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, Brundibar Arts Festival sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Watford Festival of Music, Speech and Drama (£47k), Badinage (£47k) and Rayleigh Town Museum (£47k).