Acosta Dance Foundation Ltd

Registered charity 1142368 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CARLOS ACOSTA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FOUNDATION

The promotion and advancement of the arts and in particular the arts of dance, design, lighting, stagecraft and similar and ancillary arts, together with the promotion and assistance in the advancement of public education in and knowledge of the arts of ballet, drama, music, the visual arts and the education and training of young people of moderate or limited means in these arts.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,480,447 from £599,742 in the prior period, resulting in a net surplus of £131,782. Free reserves stood at £240,729, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover foreseeable eventualities for the next two years. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit II Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07495610
• Trading subsidiary: ACOSTA DANCE CENTRE LIMITED Companies House 13599732

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Javier Torres — Managing Director (source)
• Yaday Ponce — Artistic Director (source)
• Aymara Vasallo — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• CHAO-BATLLE, Raidel — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
• ALTUNAGA, Miguel — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
• POTTER, Fern Mindy — director, appointed 27/03/2023on trustee list
• ACOSTA QUESADA, Carlos Yunior — director, appointed 15/05/2022not on trustee list
• DAVAGE, Robert Arthur — director, appointed 01/02/2013on trustee list
• ROHAN, Rupert Francois — director, appointed 17/01/2011not on trustee list
• DAVAGE, Robert Arthur — secretary, appointed 17/01/2011

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE
• FERN POTTER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Miguel Altunaga
• ROBERT ARTHUR DAVAGE
• RUPERT FRANCOIS ROHAN BA HONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raidel Chao-Batlle

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 ACS DANCE CENTRE.

• ACS DANCE CENTRE income £256k
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• GWENT BALLET THEATRE LIMITED income £1.1m
• AKRAM KHAN DANCE COMPANY income £2.7m
• MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS LIMITED income £9.0m
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Side by side with its peers

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