CIRCLE COMMUNITY LTD

Registered charity 1145291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CIRCLE SPORTS

We work with disadvantaged unemployed young people aged 18-24 years (NEETs). We deliver a 5 week training programme which is supplemented with structured work experience in the supportive retail environment of our Circle Collective streetwear & vintage stores in Hackney, Lewisham and Canary Wharf. We then support the young people into jobs through our networks of corporate and local partnerships

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: 1. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; 2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; 3. PROMOTING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION THROUGH THE PLAYING OF SPORT OR SPORTS;4. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; 5. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £30,990 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £573,020 against expenditure of £542,030. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £33,559, which is below the stated policy target band of £135,500 to £271,000. The charity maintains total cash on hand of £220,709 and confirms it is prepared on a going concern basis.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CIRCLE SPORTS C.I.C. Companies House 07376785
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07667918

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.

• DENISOV, Denis — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• MONTAGUE, John Joseph — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• COE, Robert Michael — director, appointed 20/01/2021on trustee list
• BUTLER, Rebecca Margaret — director, appointed 11/08/2017on trustee list
• GERRARD, Michael, Mr. — director, appointed 01/07/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Denis Denisov
• JOHN JOSEPH MONTAGUE · trustee of 1 other charity
• REBECCA MARGARET BUTLER
• Robert Coe · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CIRCLES NETWORK.

• CIRCLES NETWORK income £3.0m
• JUST CIRCLE LIMITED income £7.1m
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• COMMUNITIES WELFARE NETWORK income £58k
• ACTIVE COMMUNITIES NETWORK LIMITED income £1.9m
• CRAWLEY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £96k

Side by side with its peers

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