BODY POLITIC DANCE

Registered charity 1207375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BODY POLITIC

Body Politic delivers innovative Hip Hop dance performances, productions, and participatory arts that foster social inclusion. We focus on engaging children and young people from disadvantaged communities, offering cultural activities year-round, particularly in dance and theatre. We also mentor and train diverse emerging artists and dance theatre creators, supporting their artistic development.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE, IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN THE EDUCATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ARTS OF DANCE AND THEATRE, BY THE PROVISION OF PRODUCTIONS, PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS.

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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Latest income

£160k

Latest spending

£169k

Registered

2024

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £32,347 for the year, with total reserves of £32,347 at March 31, 2025. The trustees note that the charity depends on raising funds on a year-on-year basis and highlight the need to identify further funding to ensure ongoing financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“The charity’s activities were previously carried out by Body Politic Dance Limited a, company limited by guarantee. On 1 April 2024, Body Politic Dance Limited donated all its assets amount of £35,116 to Body Politic Dance (Charity).” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £32k)

“The operational reserve figure was taken from the charities previous year operational costs and reflects three months operating costs. The Trustees feel, because of the uncertain nature of other individual and grant revenues, that maintaining a target of £12,000 of unrestricted reserves is reasonable.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
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Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Caron Loudychair
Gemma Cannon
Hanna Smyth
Laura Ayoade
Lucia Prentice
Natasha Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
Rohini Jhally
Shannelle Fergus

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2026	£160k	£169k
31/03/2025	£150k	£118k

Common questions

Is BODY POLITIC DANCE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £32,347 for the year, with total reserves of £32,347 at March 31, 2025. The trustees note that the charity depends on raising funds on a year-on-year basis and highlight the need to identify further funding to ensure ongoing financial health. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	07/09/2021	£1k	COVID19 Return to Play

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DIDYMUS	2	£20k
THE TRUE COLOURS TRUST	2	£15k
THE CHARLES SKEY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£260k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£183k
THE GREENSLADE FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£143k
CYNGOR CELFYDDYDAU CYMRU	1	£119k
THE CALLEVA FOUNDATION	1	£112k
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION	1	£52k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORALI DANCE COMPANY.

CORALI DANCE COMPANY income £230k
Impelo income £261k
POLKA CHILDREN'S THEATRE LIMITED income £3.6m
SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE COMPANY income £908k
BODY AND SOUL income £1.4m
DANCE UNITED YORKSHIRE CIO income £346k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BODY POLITIC DANCE	£160k	—	above	—	no doubt
CORALI DANCE COMPANY FY2025	£230k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Impelo FY2025	£261k	—	above	—	no doubt
POLKA CHILDREN'S THEATRE LIMITED FY2025	£3.6m	—	above	—	no doubt
SIOBHAN DAVIES DANCE COMPANY FY2025	£908k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BODY AND SOUL FY2024	£1.4m	—	below	—	no doubt

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