ASHDON JAZZ ACADEMY

Registered charity 1161413 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AJA

CHARITY PROVIDED 1:1 MENTORING SUPPORT TO FEMALES AGED 11- 21 YEARS OLD. CHARITY ALSO HOSTS WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND FOCUS GROUPS FOCUSING ON RAISING SELF CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM IN FEMALE TEENAGERS.

Objects

To advance in life and relieve the needs of female teenagers aged 11- 21 through:(a) Providing support and activities, in particular mentoring support to those with low self-esteem and low self-confidence, which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.(b) providing recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £81,189, while the charity reported a net expenditure of £29,880 for the year. The balance sheet shows current assets of £115,238 against current liabilities of £6,170, indicating a strong liquidity position with no stated material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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 30/09/2021 (received 10/08/2022, 11 days after the 30/07/2022 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Howellchair
• Kate Wilson
• LINDA NEAL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle Nicholls
• Pauline Thomas

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

Operates in: Croydon · Lambeth · Lewisham · Merton · Southwark · Sutton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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