EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO

Registered charity 1184804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our service aims to promote the physical and social-emotional wellbeing of young people aged 5-25, through a range of programmes and projects linking them up with their communities. We use social circus as a platform to empower and engage young people while providing youth workers. We facilitate the ideas of young people by training them in project management and leadership.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN CIRCUS SKILLS.2. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC APPLICATION OF CIRCUS SKILLS IN ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£68k
Latest spending
£68k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a £7.2k deficit for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £22.3k held in the bank. The trustees note that the organisation faces funding fragility and relies on short-term restricted grants, but remains committed to sustaining delivery across rural communities.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/09/2025

  • Volunteers: 4
  • Government income: £23,084 — contracts £11,542 (4), grants £11,542 (4); 34% of the £67,691 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/09/2024

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £11,940 — contracts £8,940 (3), grants £3,000 (1); 23% of the £51,808 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/09/2023

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £24,364 — contracts £22,364 (3), grants £2,000 (1); 60% of the £40,349 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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 01/09/2024 (received 24/07/2025, 23 days after the 01/07/2025 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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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
01/09/2025£68k£68k
01/09/2024£52k£52k
01/09/2023£40k£32k
01/09/2022£26k£37k
01/09/2021£30k£14k

Common questions

Is EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a £7.2k deficit for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £22.3k held in the bank. The trustees note that the organisation faces funding fragility and relies on short-term restricted grants, but remains committed to sustaining delivery across rural communities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO as a grant recipient include FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HOLEHIRD TRUST, THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
FRANCIS C SCOTT CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£10k
THE HOLEHIRD TRUSTFY2022£3k
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2kYouth & Employment

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/12/2025£19ku4x (You For X)

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPIRAL SKILLS CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO£68k—0unclear—no doubt
SPIRAL SKILLS CIO FY2025£567k—0below—no doubt
Y SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FY2025£282k—0below—no doubt
HAPPY HILL ESSEX CIO FY2026£379k—0unclear—no doubt
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FY2025£30k—0unclear—no doubt
EDGE HILL YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£122k£40,4770unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.