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.

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

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.

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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).