01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC052613
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 5
- Postcode
- EH6 8RG
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Think Circus is an Edinburgh-based social circus, running community-based circus classes and projects across the city, including Leith, Granton and Craigmillar. Our mission is to take circus arts beyond the big top, contributing to a happier, healthier society. Reaching over 15,400 participants annually (including 75 regular participants), we are driven by core values of connection, quality and playfulness. You can find us popping up in local parks and community hubs with our Circus Bike, illuminating the evenings with our spell-binding fire and light performances, and encouraging young people to express themselves and build their confidence and skills through our regular projects. We teach easy to learn ground-based circus arts such as juggling, acrobatics, stilt-walking, hula hoop and balance skills, that don’t require expensive equipment and can be continued without us long after the initial spark. We also run artist development activities.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4. The organisation's purposes are: 4.1. The advancement of the arts, in particular dance, circus and theatre, for artistic merit and the development of these artforms. 4.2 To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of Edinburgh and the surrounding area the provision of recreational activities or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants. 4.3 The advancement of education, for the public at large and also for young people experiencing disadvantage.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2026 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 5 | Not supplied |
| 30 June 2025 | £178,346 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £180,199 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 5 | 28 March 2026 |
| 30 June 2024 | £102,994 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £84,784 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 5 | 30 October 2024 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- 36 Dalmeny Street, Out of the Blue Arts & Education
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.thinkcircus.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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