Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts

Analysis

Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in West Yorkshire. It was registered in October 1979, 47 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 December 2025, Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts reported income of £14k and spending of £19k, spending 141% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £3,498 to £14k (+289%), an average of +40% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 113%. Over the whole period it spent 109% 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, Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 37th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Puddletown Village Hall (£14k), Aston Ingham Village Hall (£14k) and Llanfynydd Young Famrers Club (£14k).