DANCERS' CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 1168958 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DCD

THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO DANCERS, THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF PROFESSIONAL DANCERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OF ADVICE, COACHING, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND RE-TRAINING

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF DANCE STUDENTS WHICH IS ACHIEVED THROUGH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE;2. THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF PROFESSIONAL DANCERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OF ADVICE, COACHING, VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND RE-TRAINING;3. TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £707,553 from £618,221 in the prior year, while total expenditure decreased to £667,418 from £718,482, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £271,652, which the trustees report are below the optimal policy target of six months' expenditure (£333,709) but above the minimum target of three months (£166,855).

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 6 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10137622

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dancers' Career Development (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.

• BENHAMIDA, Sonia Celine — director, appointed 17/03/2026on trustee list
• ROBBINS, Sarah Georgina — director, appointed 25/06/2025on trustee list
• SHANKARDASS, Nandita Devika — director, appointed 19/03/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Rebecca Julia — director, appointed 19/03/2025on trustee list
• ADNYANA, Adam Igusti — director, appointed 28/02/2024on trustee list
• LEERING, Judy Lynne — director, appointed 28/02/2024on trustee list
• ELIOT-COHEN, Sarah — director, appointed 29/11/2023on trustee list
• GILES, Jocelyn Thomas — director, appointed 29/09/2021on trustee list
• LEVINE, Ida — director, appointed 14/02/2018on trustee list
• GLANVILLE, Charles Dixon — director, appointed 21/04/2016on trustee list
• IVIE, Laura Anne — secretary, appointed 04/03/2026
• LEFRANCIOS, Vanessa Louise — secretary, appointed 15/06/2023

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 15.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Adnyana
• Andrew McNicol
• CHARLES GLANVILLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Blake
• Heidi Ashton
• IDA LEVINE
• Jocelyn Giles
• Judy Leering
• Nandita Shankardass
• Rebecca Julia Jones
• Sarah Eliot-Cohen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Georgina Robbins
• Sonia Celine Benhamida

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Side by side with its peers

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