Southern Cathedrals Festival Society

Analysis

Southern Cathedrals Festival Society is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salisbury. It was registered in January 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Southern Cathedrals Festival Society reported income of £83k and spending of £119k, spending 144% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £9,707 to £83k (+752%), an average of +71% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 330%. Over the whole period it spent 169% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Southern Cathedrals Festival Society sits at the 58th percentile: it is larger than about 58% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Francis of Assisi, West Wickham (£83k), Ezra Centre for Christian Thought (£83k) and Biglife Europe (£83k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.