PARAISO SCHOOL OF SAMBA

Charity Number: 1113593
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Paraiso School of Samba is led by artists who grew up immersed in the Rio de Janeiro samba carnival culture and provides open-access classes and workshops in authentic samba music and dance, performs at festivals and events and parades at major UK and overseas carnivals.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £148,407
Total expenditure: £141,867

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity has one or more trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Human Resources
  • Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales

Governance

Registration history:
  • 05 April 2006: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
  • GRES PARAISO (Working name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
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

5 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Loredana Afric Trustee 01 October 2024
None on record
Philip Dennis Willmott Trustee 07 December 2023
None on record
Bettina Fernandez Trustee 07 December 2023
None on record
Alexandre de Sousa Silva Trustee 11 July 2023
None on record
Junior Black Trustee 28 January 2017
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £166.90k £68.64k £80.70k £102.36k £148.41k
Total expenditure £146.65k £74.88k £90.09k £120.20k £141.87k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A £61.46k £61.46k £61.46k £116.46k

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 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 27 February 2024 27 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 27 February 2024 27 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 31 January 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 31 January 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 30 January 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 30 January 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 30 January 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 30 January 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
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Contact information

Address:
3 St Mary's Road
LUTON
LU1 3JA
Phone:
01582 377377