**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date 01 04 2021 31 03 2022 

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## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1179509 

Compositionality 

**Charity's principal address** 108 KENNINGTON ROAD KENNINGTON OXFORD **Postcode OX1 5PE** 

## **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 Joshua Tan 2 Simon Willerton 3 Bob Coecke 4 Jeremy Gibbons 5 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** 

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## **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** 

Type of governing document 

Consitution 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Appointed by trustees Trustee selection methods 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational 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** 

THE OBJECT IS THE CIO IS THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF COMPOSITIONAL IDEAS IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: **Summary of the objects of the** - CREATING AND SUSTAINING AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY **charity set out in its** FOR RESEARCH **governing document** - CREATING AND MAINTAINING A NON-COMMERCIAL, INTERNATIONAL, OPEN PUBLISHING PLATFORM COMMITTED TO THE CODE OF GOOD SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE AND A SCIENTIFIC OPEN ACCESS ON-LINE JOURNAL ("THE JOURNAL"). 

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COMPOSITIONALITY IS AN ACADEMIC SOCIETY. NOTABLY, IT PUBLISHES A FREE, OPEN-ACCESS ACADEMIC JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH USING COMPOSITIONAL IDEAS, MOST NOTABLY OF A CATEGORY-THEORETIC ORIGIN, IN ANY DISCIPLINE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. 

We confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. 

**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)** 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

We’ve published 5 papers in the past year at compositionality-journal.org. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

We keep sufficient reserves to fund registration with journal bodies and to operate our peer review software, Scholastica. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

None. 

## **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** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Joshua Tan **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc) Date** 2023/01/01 

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|**Accounting of Compositionality**|**Accounting of Compositionality**||||||||||
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|Treasurer: Joshua Tan, Brendan Fong, and Nina Otter||(publisher of Compositionality)|||||||||
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||**Accounts**|**Bank**|**Credit card**|**Scholastica**|**Paypal**||||||
||Current credit|£702.28|£0.00|£1,337.56|£0.00||||||
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|**Date**|**Description**|**Bank**|**Credit card**|**Scholastica**|**Paypal**|**Notes**|||||
|November 21 2022|Bluehost hosting|-£708.30||||USD837.34, to be repaid to Josh|||||
|June 5 2022|Scholastica add funds|-£240.22||£240.22||USD300, to be repaid to Josh|||||
|January 8 2022|Crossref|-£202.38||||USD275, to be repaid to Josh|||||
|November 2 2021|Schoalstica add funds|-£220.35||£220.35||USD300, repaid to Josh in GBP Dec. 31 2021|||||
|January 20 2021|Crossref|-£201.58||||USD275, repaid to Josh in GBP Dec. 31 2021|||||
|July 29 2020|Scholastica add funds|-£400.09||£400.09||USD520, repaid to Josh in GBP Dec. 31 2021|||||
|July 24 2020|Scholastica bill (autopay)|-£115.47||£115.47||USD150, repaid to Josh in GBP Dec. 31 2021|||||
|February 10 2020|Crossref|-£212.95||||USD275, paid to Josh in GBP|||||
|November 15 2019|New hosting (36 months)|-£179.31||||USD235.44 first paid in GBP to Josh, then paid via Josh's USD account to Brendan, repaid Dec. 30|||||
|October 11 2019|Domain name renewal|-£14.45||||(17.99 USD, to be repaid to Josh, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|July 17 2019|Lunch for AGM at ACT 2019|-£139.47||||(to be repaid to Josh, 133 food, 6.47 drinks, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|June 4 2019|Scholastica|-£172.93||£172.93||(220 USD, to be repaid to Josh, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|March 26 2019|Private donation|£6,000.00||||(first paid to Josh's account, moved to the official bank account Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|Jan 10 2019|Crossref 2019 membership|-£209.85||||(275 USD, to be repaid to Nina's account, repaid Dec 30)|||||
|Dec 30 2018|Web hosting through Nixcloud|-£85.62||||(100 EUR, to be repaid to Josh, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|Oct 2 2018|poster printing (paid to Jeremy Gi|-£20.34<br>b||||(to be repaid to Josh, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|Sep 9 2018|Domain registration|-£12.00||||(to be repaid to Josh, repaid Dec 2, 2019)|||||
|Sep 9 2018|Initial Scholastica deposit|-£188.50||£188.50||(250 USD, to be repaid to Josh|repaid Dec 2, 2019||||
|Startup|Web hosting 1st year|£0.00||||(using Josh's private hosting)|||||
|Sep 1 2018|Frontend customization|-£1,903.96||||(2500 USD first paid in GBP to Josh, then paid via Josh's USD account to Brendan, repaid Dec 30)|||||
|August 19 2018|Crossref prorated 2018 members|-£69.95<br>h||||(91.67 USD to be repaid to Nina's account, repaid Dec 30)|||||
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