01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 14 April 2016
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Company number supplied
- 09295341
- Financial period
- 1 December 2024 – 30 November 2025
- Latest income
- £2,885
- Latest expenditure
- £1,494
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: 40 Broomfield Road, GOSFORTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE3 4HH
Website recorded by the regulator: http://www.comedysupportact.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
In summary, the charity prevents or relieves the financial hardship of current and former comedy professionals (and their spouses, civil partners and dependents) who have become unwell, by raising funds and distributing such funds to such people. To qualify for assistance such comedy professionals must (inter alia) live (or have lived) in the UK.
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Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 27 July 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £2,885
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,494
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 25 April 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £16,750
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £3,417
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 19 August 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £18
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,363
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 15 August 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £171
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,688
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2020
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2021
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2022
- Date Annual Return Received
- 19 August 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £4,316
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £614
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 30 September 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 25 April 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £16,750
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £3,417
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- Yes
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Northern Ireland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Country
- Geographic Area Description
- Scotland
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Continent
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Europe
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 105
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Classification Code
- 301
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Classification Code
- 206
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Defined Groups
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- COMEDY SUPPORT ACT UK LTD
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 2016-04-14T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04 NOV 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 APR 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 28 JUN 2017
- Charitable Objects
- THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP FOR THE BENEFIT OF COMEDY PROFESSIONALS, FORMER COMEDY PROFESSIONALS THEIR SPOUSES, CIVIL PARTNERS AND DEPENDENTS, WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES BY REASON OF SICKNESS, ACCIDENT OR INFIRMITY BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN SUCH AMOUNTS AND AT SUCH TIMES AND ON SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE A 'COMEDY PROFESSIONAL' IS DEFINED AS A COMEDIAN AND/OR COMEDY PERFORMER WHO MEETS ALL FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING TESTS: (A) HE/SHE HAS (IN THE SOLE OPINION OF THE DIRECTORS) DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO THE COMEDY PROFESSION; (B) HE/SHE IS, OR HAS BEEN, A RESIDENT OF THE UK; (C) HE/SHE HAS PERFORMED IN RETURN FOR PAYMENT IN/ON ONE OR MORE OF STAGE, RADIO, FILM, TELEVISION OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH SUCH ARTS MAY BE PRACTICED; AND (D) HIS/HER PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME IS, OR HAS BEEN, AS A COMEDIAN AND/OR COMEDY PERFORMER.
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Charity Other Names
- Charity Name Id
- 567551
- Charity Name Type
- Working name
- Charity Name
- CSAUK