**From** Period start date **T** Period end date ~~aA~~ Day 31 Month 8 Year 2023 **o** Day 30 Month 8 Year 2024 Section A Reference and administration details ~~a~~ **Charity name** Balloon Circus ~~PO~~ ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1168978 **Charity's principal address** 23 Rivergreen Crescent Bramcote Nottingham **Postcode NG9 3ET** ~~ee~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Michelle Harrison 4 July 2016 - present Trustee on incorporation 2 Miranda Wilkinson 2 Sep 2017 - present Charity trustees Katherine 4 July 2016 - present Trustee on incorporation 3 Walmsley Neil Harrison 1 September 2021 - Charity Trustees 4 present Chris Wright 21 December 2021 - Charity Trustees 5 present ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** [_ 1 March **2012** **TAR** **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** CIO – Foundation Registered 31 August 2016 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened and minuted Trustee selection methods meeting of the charity trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no benefits You **may choose** to include from the CIO. The trustees do not have any relationships with additional information, where any of the external parties that work with Balloon Circus. relevant, about: ● policies and procedures All new trustees are introduced to our policies including: adopted for the induction and training of trustees; • Risk register ● the charity’s organisational • Conflict of interest structure and any wider • Safeguarding network with which the charity works; These policies are updated every year and issues related ● relationship with any related discussed at quarterly meetings. parties; ● trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** 2 March **2012** **TAR** |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|To help young people from deprived backgrounds, especially but not
exclusively through leisure time activities, including circus skills, so as to
develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals
and members of society.| |---|---| ||Balloon Circus has organised and delivered a series of structured play
and circus skills workshops led by sensitive and experienced volunteer
workshop leaders to young people in orphanages and special needs
schools.
The workshops have been carefully designed to:
●Build confidence and self-esteem of participants
●Encourage teamwork
●Engage the left and right side of the body and the brain
●Help participants to confront the unknown, react to the unexpected
and plunge into the next challenge with confidence
●Bring laughter and joy to young people in a safe and nurturing
environment
●Build the skills and confidence of the institution’s staff to help the
children to continue to build on the skills after the workshop has
finished.
The trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission’s public
benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the
guidance is relevant| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 3 March **2012** **TAR** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|2023 - 2024 proved another great year for us at Balloon Circus.
Our primary focus is on promoting good health and wellbeing, in line with
Sustainable Development Goal 3. We also aim to teach critical thinking
skills, and provide alternative play to their normal activities.
For vulnerable young people, especially those who have experienced
conflict or trauma, circus workshops can be a form of escape,
overcoming hardship, where they share their experiences and express
their emotions.
Circus skills can be used to teach life skills, including perseverance,
teamwork, trust and positive risk-taking.
Young people can apply these life skills outside of the circus – which can
help make them more employable and taking part in workshops can give
a sense of self-worth while boosting their confidence, in turn they can
continue making a positive difference in the world.
During our tour, we engaged the children in various activities that
included circus workshops and balloon modelling. We spent time
teaching them different skills and sharing our experiences, with the aim of
increasing their confidence levels.
We held 10 workshops teaching over 700 children. We drove over 2000
km to reach them all and the whole tour cost £3166|| |---|---|---| ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 5 Balloon Circus has a small reserves policy of £500 in 2023/24 to **Brief statement of the** cover any administration costs. On the basis that it does not **charity’s policy on reserves** employ any staff and the risk of unforeseen emergency or other unexpected need for funds is small. The charity has no liabilities in terms of premises, equipment, pensions etc and no committed regular expenditure. It does not rely on regular income from grant applications or apply to deliver projects on a ‘matched funding’ basis. There is no cashflow issue - i.e. money is not spent or committed before it has been raised. However the trustees have agreed that the policy should be kept under review as demanded by the risk register and risk management policy. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** - You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: ● the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - ● how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - ● investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. - **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 6 March **2012** **TAR** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Chris Wright ~~es~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee **Date** 26/3/2025 ~~fF~~ 7 March **2012** **TAR** ||**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Balloon Circus**
**1168978**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
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Period end date
8/31/2023
8/31/2024
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~~ee_~~| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**||**Last year**| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| ||**627**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**627**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)|**627**
(Gross income for AR)||**-**||**-**|**-**||**627**||**-**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Total receipts 627**
**-**
**-**
**627**
**-**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——_————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Admin|**242**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**242**||**-**| |Equipment|**76**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**76**||**-**| |Accommodation|**342**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**342**||**-**| |Volunteer Expenses|**850**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**850**||**-**| |Travel|**1,656**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**1,656**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total 3,166**|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**3,166**||**-**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Total payments 3,166**
**-**
**-**
**3,166**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**Net of receipts/(payments) - 2,539**
**-**
**-**
**- 2,539**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**4,646**
**-**
**-**
**4,646**
**-**
**Cash funds this year end 2,107**
**-**
**-**
**2,107**
**-**
~~SSS~~||||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**||**Details**||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| |||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,107**
**-**
**-**
**Total cash funds**
~~—====~~||||||| |||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|(agree balances with receipts and payments|OK|OK||OK| |||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |||||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| |||**Details**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===~~||||||| |||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~ee~~||||||| |||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~ue~~||||||| |||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||**When due**| |||**Details**||**liability relates**|**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Signature
Print Name
Chris Wright
26/03/2025
Date of
approval
~~———~~|||||||