Rye Arts Festival

Analysis

Rye Arts Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Rye. It was registered in October 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover 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 December 2025, Rye Arts Festival reported income of £87k and spending of £79k, spending 91% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £81k to £87k (+8.0%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 91% 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, Rye Arts 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 The Woodfield Project (£87k), Woodbridge Riverside Trust (£87k) and Ilkley Manor House Trust (£87k).