Circus Leeds

Registered charity 1055291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS CHILDREN'S CIRCUS

Providing fun and inspirational activities for young people and children in a safe and positive environment via the teaching of circus skills,performance and creative crafts.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC,AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING PROMOTING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 16,IN THE ARTS,CRAFTS AND SKILLS OF CIRCUS IN AN ACCESSIBLE,SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £3,758 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds decreasing from £14,041 to £10,283. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £10,283 are sufficient to cover at least three months of running costs, meeting their stated reserves policy. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to light during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 03/02/2026, 3 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02943849 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• NORTON, Elizabeth Amy — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• GALLIMORE, Demelza Dianne — director, appointed 12/02/2026on trustee list
• KANE, Nina Rosanne, Dr — director, appointed 12/02/2026on trustee list
• FARAGHER, Ruth Louise — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• O'NEILL, Catherine Louisa Cooper — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• SANDERSON, Emma Catherine — director, appointed 23/06/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Louisa Cooper O'Neill
• Deborah Jaffer
• Demelza Gallimore
• Dr Nina Rosanne Kane
• Elizabeth Amy Norton
• Emma Catherine Sanderson
• Ruth Louise Faragher

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CIRCUS ERUPTION.

• CIRCUS ERUPTION income £426k
• CIRK HES LTD income £149k
• NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CIRCUS ARTS income £2.9m
• GUITAR CIRCUS income £80k
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k
• LUDUS DANCE income £133k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.