The Guiting Music Festival

Analysis

The Guiting Music Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in April 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, 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 August 2025, The Guiting Music Festival reported income of £133k and spending of £107k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £45k to £133k (+195%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 95%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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, The Guiting Music Festival sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Villages in Action (£133k), Ludus Dance (£133k) and The Gloriana Trust (£133k).