BOY BLUE

Registered charity 1189800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOY BLUE ENTERTAINMENT

Boy Blue is an award-winning hip hop dance theatre company based in London. An Artistic Associate of the Barbican Centre, Boy Blue create work for the stage and screen and have a strong educational foundation. The Company run a highly respected dance training programme in east London, have a set work on the GCSE Dance syllabus and teach, train and mentor throughout the UK and internationally.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE ART OF DANCE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £64,469 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £323,163. However, free reserves dropped significantly to £35,703, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £155,000. The charity remains dependent on Arts Council England funding, which has been extended until March 2027.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gurpreet Singh Lidderchair
• Andrea Lidder
• Anja Zoll-Khan
• Anthony Gray
• Dorothy Oluremi Connolly-Townsend
• Jon-Rhys Peter Foster
• Kieran Jay
• Nadine Deschamps
• Sarah Wall

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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