**Trustees' Annual Report for the period From** Period start date **T** Period end date 01 04 2024 **o** 31 03 2025 ||**Charity name**|||Compositionality|Compositionality|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**|| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|Bob Coecke|||| |2|JeremyGibbons|||| |3|Paweł Sobociński|||| |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)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Elena Di Lavore, Louis Lemonnier, Mario Roman ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Selected 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 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 **Summary of the objects of the** - creating and maintaining a non-commercial, international, open **charity set out in its governing document** publishing platform committed to the code of good scientific practice and a scientific open access on-line journal ("the journal"). March **2012** **TAR** 2 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** Compositionality has published 5 articles during the year 2025 at compositionality.episciences.org. During the year 2025, Compositionality has received 18 submissions and rejected 4 of them. Between 01/04/2024 and 31/03/2025, Compositionality received 16 submissions and rejected 2 of them. During this period, Compositionality published 4 articles. 4 March **2012** **TAR** **Section E Financial review** Compositionality keeps sufficient reserves for unforeseen expenses. **Brief statement of the** Episciences covers the indexing costs and provides peer review **charity’s policy on reserves** software. **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)** Jeremy Gibbons **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee and Charity Contact **Date** 2025/01/29 5 March **2012** **TAR** Accountlng of e0mposlt5ona1￿ Ipubll•h•r oltM ThwsNSonallWJwmal> T￿Surer. 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