CIRCUS ERUPTION

Registered charity 1063928 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The UK's 1st Integrated Youth Circus. We provide a fun and supportive environment for children and young people of all abilities to practice new skills and have a say in what happens.

Objects

(1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.(2) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE SOME OF WHOM HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS BY THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES WHICH ARE EDUCATIVE, PARTICIPATIVE, EMPOWERING AND EXPRESSIVE THROUGH THE MEDIUMS OF CIRCUS AND THEATRE

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE SWANSEA

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £426,417 from £338,962 in the prior year, resulting in a small net surplus of £3,084. Free reserves stood at approximately £73,315, which is below the charity's stated policy target of 3-6 months of running costs plus an emergency building works fund.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Regional Integration Fund — “Recent Revenue Funders: Regional Integration Fund” (source page)
• Swansea Council for Voluntary Service — “Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (SPF through Swansea Council and UK Government), and the Alun Evans Fund” (source page)
• Alun Evans Fund — “Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (SPF through Swansea Council and UK Government), and the Alun Evans Fund” (source page)
• UK Youth — “UK Youth – Thriving Minds” (source page)
• Austin Bailey Foundation — “Austin Bailey Foundation (Bubble Circus)” (source page)
• Postcode Community Trust — “Postcode Community Trust” (source page)
• WCVA — “WCVA (Volunteering in Wales)” (source page)
• Herefordshire Community Foundation — “Herefordshire Community Foundation” (source page)
• Swansea Council — “Swansea Council COAST funding” (source page)
• The Moondance Foundation — “Capital grants for the refurbishment of the building have come from: The Moondance Foundation” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• Architectural Heritage Fund — “Architectural Heritage Fund” (source page)
• Welsh Government — “Welsh Government Community Facilities Programme” (source page)
• Coop Foundation — “Coop Foundation (who also provided a loan)” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £55k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alfred Robert John Temple Stroud
• Amy Hester Smith
• Benjamin Nagle Hyde
• Caitlin Bassel Burton
• Carys Elin Lovering
• Elizabeth Ellen Mander
• Joanne McGreal
• Naomi Ann Frisby Richards
• Nia Morganna Dunstan-Davies
• Robyn Douglas Thomas Griffiths
• Ruth Helen Bardell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Jane Etheridge
• Victoria Sellwood

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

Operates in: Bridgend · Caerphilly · Carmarthenshire · City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot · Rhondda Cynon Taff

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE CIRCUS PROJECT income £41k
• Circus Leeds income £49k
• NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CIRCUS ARTS income £2.9m
• KRUNCH UK income £599k
• SPRINGS FAMILY CENTRE income £156k
• START UPRIGHT income £5.5m

Side by side with its peers

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