**Trustees' Annual Report for the period From** Period start date **To** Period end date 01 04 2022 31 03 2023 ## Reference and administration details **Charity name** Compositionality **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1179509 **Charity's principal address** 108 KENNINGTON ROAD KENNINGTON OXFORD **Postcode OX1 5PE** Compositionality ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** - **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled to** - **Trustee name Office (if any) year appoint trustee (if any)** - 1 Bob Coecke 2 Jeremy Gibbons 3 Joshua Tan 4 Simon Willerton 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** 1 March **2012** **TAR** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |Elena Di Lavore, Mario Roman||| |**Section B**
**Structure, governance and management**
**Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
Constitution
How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Selected by Trustees||| ## **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**|**Section C**
**Objectives and activities**| |---|---| |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its governing**
**document**|| ||The object of the CIO is the promotion of research in the area of
compositional ideas in science and mathematics for the public benefit by:
- creating and sustaining an international community for research
- 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").| 2 March **2012** **TAR** 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. 3 March **2012** **TAR** Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** We’ve published 10 papers in the year 2023 at compositionality-journal.org. 4 March **2012** **TAR** **Section E** ## **Financial review** We keep sufficient reserves to fund registration with journal bodies and to **Brief statement of the** operate our peer review software, Scholastica. **charity’s policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially** None. **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 Signature(s) Full name(s)** Jeremy Gibbons **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee and Charity Contact **Date** 2024/01/01 5 March **2012** **TAR** Ji El￿1£5 ￿5￿24 Cros* £1W 51 AAy31 MW{h8￿2) 4D)51 IT 1[￿23 UXQYS 1721 )IN21 31 ￿21 fWknknhthGBPDtt 312lX 31￿1 )nthr2￿21 20￿21 55 411541 Its￿20 Crw MThwLw1SDIt9 17531 y I?￿T9 >JM4DIt9 th2$￿TI 1YJAT 417LS5 EITLg3 )JiY 54p9Dlt8 11 Èi V4qbk• 1#yJ Styl XIT8 TAR Marth 2012