
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 01/04/2024 To** 

**31/03/2025** 

## **Charity name: SPARK SUPPORT** 

## **Charity registration number: 1179746** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**The charity’s purposes are: To provide**<br>**and manage an online Peer Support**<br>**group for people suffering with mental**<br>**health problems, and to promote**<br>**removing the stigma of mental health.**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identifiedinthe accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**We have remained true to our purposes**<br>**this year, maintaining, running and**<br>**developing our Peer Support Group,**<br>**encouraging interaction both through the**<br>**good and the bad.**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees have had regard to Charity**<br>**Commission guidance on public benefit.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|---|---|---|
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|**All of the Spark Support team are**<br>**volunteers. This means that the charity**<br>**could not exist without the contribution**<br>**of our volunteer team. On average, we get**<br>**210 hours of volunteer time per week,**<br>**and we would like to take this opportunity**<br>**to publicly thank every single person who**<br>**hasgiven us time thisyear.**|





## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**We’ve been pretty quiet lately due to**<br>**commitments outside of the charity –**<br>**however we have maintained true to our**<br>**purpose and keep ensuring that we**<br>**always provide our well valued support**<br>**group.**|
|**Financial Review**|||
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**We remain in good standing across our**<br>**finances.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity aims to hold £200 minimum in**<br>**reserve, to ensure that, should we have**<br>**any major fundraising issues, we are able**<br>**to keep the core service running.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**We hold the full £200 minimum.**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**This has been a hard year for fundraising**<br>**– however as our outgoings are minimal,**<br>**we have no concerns.**|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**We are governed by a constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**The charity is constituted as a CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**A position would be advertised, and**<br>**potential trustees would be interviewed**<br>**by existing trustees, and the best**<br>**possible candidate would be selected**<br>**from the applicants. Provision would be**<br>**made for none of the applicants to be**<br>**hired, should none of the applicants be of**<br>**a standard.**|



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|Spark Support|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|1179746|
|Charity’s principal address|8 Dawson Terrace<br>Harrogate<br>HG1 2AW|



## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|<br> <br>|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Gareth William Molyneux|Chief Executive Officer|||
||Emma Louise Broxton|Chief Community<br>Officer|||
||Rachael Woodman|Engagement Officer|||



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** 


**Full name(s)** Gareth William Molyneux **Position (eg Secretary,** Chief Executive Officer **Chair, etc) Date** 29/01/2026 2 



|**Spark**|**Support**|||**1179746**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For**|**the period**<br>**from**|4/1/2024|**To**|4/1/2025|||




## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**Section A Receipts and payments**<br>**Spark Support**<br>**1179746**<br>**CC16a**<br>**Receipts and payments accounts**<br>**For the period**<br>**from**<br>4/1/2024<br>**To**<br>4/1/2025|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**A1 Receipts**|||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**100**<br>**325**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**425**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**75**|
|Cash in Bank|**325**||**-**||**-**||**325**||**325**|
|Sales|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Other (Incl. Gift Aid)|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**425**||**-**||**-**||**425**||**400**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**|||||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**425**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**<br>**_Total receipts_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**425**||**-**||**-**||||**400**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|||||||||||
|SaaS Services|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**75**|
|Bank Fees|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Volunteer Costs|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Cost of Sales - Goods|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Member Interaction|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Training|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Marketing|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**100**||**-**||**-**||**100**||**75**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|||||||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100**<br>**325**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**325**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**<br>**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||||||||||**75**|
|||||||||||
||**325**||**-**||**-**||**325**||**325**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**325**||**-**||**-**||**325**||**325**|



**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Cash in Bank||**325**||**-**||**-**|





|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**325**||||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||||
||account(s))|||OK||||OK||OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||||**funds**||||**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**Fund to which**||||**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**|||**liability relates**||||**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print||Name||||Date of<br>approval|
||G. W. Molyneux [Signed Digitally]|||Gareth W.|||Molyneux|||1/30/2026|
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