**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 31 8 2024 **To** 31 8 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details ~~ee~~ **Charity name** Balloon Circus **Other names charity is known by** > **Registered charity number (if any)** ~~Po~~ 1168978 **Charity's principal address** 23 Rivergreen Crescent Bramcote Nottingham **Postcode NG9 3ET** ## **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)** ~~ee~~ **year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Michelle Harrison 4 July 2016 - present Trustee on incorporation ~~es ee~~ 2 Miranda Wilkinson 2 Sep 2017 - present Charity trustees ~~ee es~~ 3 Katherine Walmsley 4 July 2016 - present Trustee on incorporation ~~es es es~~ 1 September 2021 - Charity Trustees 4[Neil Harrison] present ~~ee es~~ 5[Chris Wright] 21 December 2021 - Charity Trustees present ~~ee ee~~ 6 ~~ee eeee ee~~ 7 ~~es~~ 8 ~~ee eeee~~ 9 ~~ee~~ 10 ~~ee es~~ 11 ~~ee ee~~ 12 ~~ee ee~~ 13 ~~ee ee~~ 14 ~~ee ee~~ 15 ~~ee ee~~ 16 ~~ee ee~~ 17 ~~ee ee~~ 18 ~~ee ee~~ 19 ~~ee e e~~ ~~**e**~~ 20 ~~ee~~ ~~**e**~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** ~~a~~ **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**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 from the CIO. The trustees do not have any relationships with any of the external parties that work with Balloon Circus. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - All new trustees are introduced to our policies including: - policies and procedures • Risk register adopted for the induction and • Conflict of interest training of trustees; • Safeguarding - These policies are updated every year and issues related discussed at - the charity’s organisational quarterly meetings. - structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**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)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 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 2024 - 2025 **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 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. This year we have been reviewing policies and applying for grants/ funding for future tours and activities. We have not been able to go on tour this year due to unfortunate external factors, but will be back on tour in 2026. ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 5 - Balloon Circus has a small reserves policy of £500 in 2024/25 to cover - **Brief statement of the** any administration costs. On the basis that it does not employ any staff **charity’s policy on reserves** 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. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Section F Other optional information
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**Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Chris Wright March **2012** **TAR** 6 **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 12/09/2025 March **2012** **TAR** 7 ||**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Balloon Circus**
**1168978**
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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**||||||||||| |Donations|**520**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**520**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**520**
_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**||**-**|**-**||**520**||**-**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 520**
**-**
**-**
**520**
**-**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——_————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Admin|**475**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**475**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ 475**|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**475**||**-**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 475**
**-**
**-**
**475**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 45**
**-**
**-**
**45**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**2,107**
**-**
**-**
**2,107**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,152**
**-**
**-**
**2,152**
**-**
~~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**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**2,152**
**-**
**-**
**_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**|**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
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**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|**-**
**-**
**-**
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Signature
Print Name
CHRIS WRIGHT
12/9/2025
Date of
approval
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