TROPICAL ISLES

Charity number: 1090798
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Tropical Isles is a professional award-winning carnival arts organisation with creativity at its heart. At our East London home, we design and make costumes and create performances working with children and young people, professional designers and choreographers. We believe that through carnival arts we can inspire and drive creativity, that finally contributes to the development of young people.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025

Total income: £189,832
Total expenditure: £183,998

Total income includes £54,418 from 3 government grant(s)

People

3 Trustee(s)

6 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Education/training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • Elderly/old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout London

Governance

Registration history:
  • 26 February 2002: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

3 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
PEGGY PATRICIA MCKENZIE Trustee 28 February 2013
None on record
DEIRDRE SCANTLEBURY Trustee
None on record
JEFFERY STJEAN Trustee
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024 31/03/2025
Total gross income £116.71k £202.94k £89.93k £193.84k £189.83k
Total expenditure £112.93k £189.51k £109.59k £162.70k £184.00k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A £0 N/A
Income from government grants £112.18k £198.59k £60.71k £35.60k £54.42k

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2025 25 January 2026 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2025 25 January 2026 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2024 29 January 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 29 January 2025 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 30 January 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 30 January 2024 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 29 January 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 29 January 2023 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 29 January 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 29 January 2022 On time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED ON 6TH DECEMBER 2002 AND FURTHER AMENDED ON 7TH FEBRUARY 2002.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY CHILDREN IN THE ARTS (MEANING THE MUSICAL, VISUAL, LITERARY, DRAMATIC OR ANY OTHER ARTS PROVIDED IN EACH CASE THEY ARE OF RECOGNISED CULTURAL, AESTHETIC OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE), CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL VALUES OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY. B. TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND INCREASE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE ARTS, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ACTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN TO THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HERITAGE OF THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, AND SUBJECT OF ARTISTIC MERIT SO THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS MIGHT BE PROMOTED AND THE CONTRIBUTION WHICH A MULTI-RACIAL COMMUNITY HAS TO MAKE TO SOCIETY MIGHT BE ENHANCED, SPECIFICALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

HACKNEY - STOKENEWINGTON

Contact information

Address:
The Rose Lipman Building
Studio 8 & 11
43 De Beauvoir Road
Hackney
London
N1 5SF
Phone:
07985154932
Email:
info@tropicalislescarnival.org
Website:

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