Registered charity · No. 1158876Charitable company
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Solent Music Festival
Independent profile · Charity Commission for England and Wales data
Solent Music Festival is a registered charity in England & Wales. Its register classifications include education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science.
Solent Music Festival (number 1158876) is listed as registered in the Charity Commission snapshot used here. Check the live register for its current position. Registration does not authenticate a particular fundraising appeal or establish the impact of a donation.
What does Solent Music Festival do?
The Solent Music Festival presents an annual international classical music festival at St Thomas Church in Lymington. It also organises local musical projects involving the community.
Activities reported on the official register · extract 2026-10-04.
From the annual return
Pay, income, Gift Aid and registration details for Solent Music Festival
Answers Solent Music Festival gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 2025, plus its register entry. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.
How much are Solent Music Festival's highest-paid staff paid?
Solent Music Festival's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000.
The register reports headcounts in salary bands, not names. Individual pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report.
Can I claim Gift Aid, and are the trustees paid?
The register records Solent Music Festival as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration. Work out your Gift Aid
Solent Music Festival's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
Reported beneficiaries: Children/young People; People With Disabilities; The General Public/mankind.
Reported activities: Provides Services.
Classifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-04. These broad categories do not establish eligibility or current capacity. Use the official contact details to ask about access, referrals and service area.
What causes is Solent Music Festival registered for?
Education/trainingArts/culture/heritage/science
Why is there no Clarity Score for Solent Music Festival yet?
Our dataset does not yet contain the detailed filing history needed to score Solent Music Festival.
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The register data used for this profile lists Solent Music Festival as a registered charity (number 1158876) with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Check the current register entry. A real charity number does not verify a fundraiser or appeal, and registration is not an impact rating.
What is Solent Music Festival's charity number?
Solent Music Festival's charity number is 1158876. Check that number on the Charity Commission register or this CharityCompare profile before you donate.
How do I check charity number 1158876?
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What does Solent Music Festival do?
The Solent Music Festival presents an annual international classical music festival at St Thomas Church in Lymington. It also organises local musical projects involving the community.
Does Solent Music Festival have reviews and complaints?
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Solent Music Festival. This basic profile confirms registration and register facts. Rated charities also show a filing-based Clarity Score. For formal complaints, contact the Charity Commission for England and Wales or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How can I donate to Solent Music Festival?
Solent Music Festival's website listed in our register data is http://solentmusicfestival.com. Verify it against the current register before donating. CharityCompare does not process donations or take a commission; the charity's payment provider may charge fees.
How much is Solent Music Festival's chief executive paid?
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Solent Music Festival's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Solent Music Festival?
The register records Solent Music Festival as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Solent Music Festival's trustees paid?
Solent Music Festival's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Solent Music Festival registered as a charity?
Solent Music Festival was entered on the register on 16 October 2014. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08218130).