DDMIX TRUST

Registered charity 1193676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

DDMIX Trust is a charity created by Dame Darcey Bussell DBE. DDMIX for Schools dance fitness for PE is an inspiring dance programme for primary PE that embodies wellbeing and gets every child moving in every lesson.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING DANCE IN ALL ITS EXPRESSIONS.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF DANCE IN ALL ITS EXPRESSIONS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ADVANCEMENT OF STANDARDS OF TEACHING OF DANCE FOR ALL AGES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM AND THE PROMOTION OF SPECIFIC FORMS OF DANCE, IN ALL CASES THROUGHOUT THE UK AND BEYOND.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £42,167 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds falling to a negative balance of £12,694. The trustees report that the charity is closing its operations after 11 years, with assets donated to another charity. The filing notes that the company was entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime.

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
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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 31/12/2022 (received 23/11/2023, 23 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angus David Forbeschair
• Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell DBE
• Joanne Mary Manoukian
• Matthew Cunningham

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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