Stainsby Folk Group

Analysis

Stainsby Folk Group is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chesterfield. It was registered in February 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Stainsby Folk Group reported income of £63k and spending of £68k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £16k to £63k (+300%), an average of +41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 541%. Over the whole period it spent 112% 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, Stainsby Folk Group sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dilys Guite Players Limited (£63k), The Garrick Charitable Trust (£63k) and Cymdeithas Ddrama Llangefni (£63k).

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.