Stratford and East London Music Festival

Analysis

Stratford and East London Music Festival is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Woodford Green. It was registered in March 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Stratford and East London Music Festival reported income of £16k and spending of £11k, leaving 35% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £4,827 to £16k (+237%), an average of +36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 114%. 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, Stratford and East London Music Festival sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chailey Parish Hall (£16k), Great Longstone Village Hall (£16k) and Richmondshire Choral Society (£16k).