Mayflower Performing Arts Group

Analysis

Mayflower Performing Arts Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wickford. It was registered in November 1979, 47 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides human resources.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Mayflower Performing Arts Group reported income of £49k and spending of £65k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £19k to £49k (+151%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 85%. Over the whole period it spent 105% 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, Mayflower Performing Arts Group sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% 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 Mid-Somerset Festival (£49k), Opus 48 (£49k) and Whittlesford Memorial Hall (£49k).

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.