COMPASS COMMUNITY ARTS

Registered charity 1099983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Arts organisation providing arts and artistic experiences to members of the local community and especially to those marginalised groups and individuals.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR VISUAL ARTS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EASTBOURNE, CROWBOROUGH AND ROCHESTER

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

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

Registered contact address: Eastbourne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £25,640 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £45,923 to £20,283. The trustees note that the cost-of-living crisis created significant financial challenges, including reduced grant opportunities and rising costs, but assert that the charity is more secure financially than in previous years. The trustees confirm they have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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 05/02/2026, 5 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 04851119

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Compass (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• KING, Tyron — director, appointed 22/09/2022on trustee list
• BALL, Nicole Helene — director, appointed 14/07/2021on trustee list
• BURNET, Jillian Carrington — director, appointed 14/07/2021on trustee list
• FOX, Mary Lena — director, appointed 14/07/2021on trustee list
• KOOPS, Jan Christopher — director, appointed 02/12/2020on trustee list
• CARMICHAEL, Kim — director, appointed 14/10/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jan Christopher Myhill Koopschair
• Jillian Carrington Burnet
• Kim Carmichael
• Mary Lena Fox
• Nicole Helene Ball
• Tyron King

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABUNDANCE ARTS.

• ABUNDANCE ARTS income £68k
• MID BORDER COMMUNITY ARTS LTD income £46k
• LIFE WITH ART income £372k
• COMPASS COLLECTIVE income £215k
• SPACE ART income £35k
• LEEDS COMMUNITY ARTS NETWORK income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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