# Annual Report July 2024-June 2025
**Global Goals Centre is an education charity enabling learning and action on climate, nature and equality, inspired by the Global Goals.**
## Table of contents
|Table of contents||
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|Introduction
|**3**|
|Projects
|**5-19**|
|Education Workshops|**5**|
|School Holiday Workshops|**6**|
|Earth Day Heroes|**7**|
|Sparks Bristol|**8**|
|International Cultural Festival|**12**|
|Wonderful Water Festival|**15**|
|Entrepreneur support for refugee and migrant|start-ups **17**|
|Community Threads|**18**|
|Developing volunteers and interns
|**20-21**|
|Conclusion and Looking Ahead
|**22-23**|
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## Introduction - Dr Steve Roser, Chair of Trustees
Another wonderful year for the Global Goals Centre! Our millionth visitor shows part of the extent of the reach we have built over the past two years in Sparks, alongside the increased support for local entrepreneurs, artists, education and climate activists. Nationally we have become increasingly visible, with several awards for our approaches to sustainability and in November 2024 GGC received global recognition for our education work when we won the Okayama ESD Award (Education for Sustainable Development).
GGC was also runner up in the Benefact Charity Heroes Awards for Climate Action Project 2024 and received the award at a national ceremony at the Tower of London in November. Personally, the highlights have been the wonderful food at the Cultural Festival, the enthusiasm at the launch of Earth Day heroes and the restructuring of our education workshop offerings which lies at the core of our mission.
Once again, I have to thank all the brilliant staff and volunteers at GGC, especially Jenny and Manu, who give life to this extraordinary set of ideas and actions.
Our Co-Director and Education Lead, Manu Maunganidze, receiving the Okayama ESD Award in Japan
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Number of young people taken part in climate and social justice workshops
# **1408**
# **33 455,799**
Number of students and interns given work experience
Total number of people engaged with our projects
Number of small entrepreneurs and artists supported to develop their business **205** Website users **27,098**
Number of small entrepreneurs and artists supported to develop their business
Annual turnover July 2024 -June 2025:
# **£143,525.80**
Percentage of staff travelling to work sustainably
# **100%**
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## Projects
## **Education Workshops**
Our small Education team has not only delivered workshops, but also invested time in creating a more curriculumaligned workshop offer, and in developing meaningful sustainability education experiences for children and young people with special education needs.
In response to our teacher’s survey and requests, we expanded our offer to 10 workshops, all clearly linked to each year group’s curriculum.
**Global Goals Centre Workshop Guide**
Curriculum links to make it easier for teachers to align to their lesson plans
**Global Goals Centre Workshop Curriculum Links PDF**
## **Feedback and Impacts**
Feedback from students **- Sparks Schools Feedback Forms 2024-2025**
Feedback from teachers **- Evaluation of your SPARKS visit (Responses)**
Thanks to UWE who made a film about our workshops **- Global Goals Centre schools workshops in Sparks 2025**
We are so grateful to the Nisbet Trust for funding our education work this year.
We delivered workshops to children and young people aged 7-18 from 24 schools and colleges across the region.
We also provided training to 125 Norland Nannies, equipping them to include sustainability in their work with under 5s. This is now embedded in each annual cohort’s core training.
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## **School Holiday Workshops**
Every Friday in the school holidays, we have been able to offer free craft workshops in Sparks. These workshops have been very popular, and we have been so pleased to have been able to pay artis Every Friday in the school holidays, we have been able to offer free craft workshops in Sparks. These workshops have been very popular, and we have been so pleased to have been able to pay artist-educators from Bristol Refugee Artist Collective to deliver these workshops. t-educators from Bristol Refugee Artist Collective to deliver these workshops.
Families have expressed gratitude to have free and meaningful activities for them to do together during school holidays.
All workshops have been themed on sustainability, including creating water balloons out of paper mache, nature paintings and anti-racism lino prints.
Families have expressed gratitude to have free and meaningful activities for them to do together during school holidays.
All workshops have been themed on sustainability, including creating water balloons out of paper mache, nature paintings and anti-racism lino prints.
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## Earth Day Heroes
Our education team planned and are delivering a new project - Earth Day Heroes - to empower students and young people (aged 7-21) across a diverse range of communities, to play their part in making their communities more sustainable. The aim is that the new projects created will bring lasting change and spur a ripple effect of positive practical community action. We are partnering with Bristol Education Partnership, Black 2 Nature and Green Schools. Funding from Youth Climate Action Fund is enabling us to give micro grants to schools and youth groups for materials and mentoring to develop and deliver their projects.
Our launch event in April 2025 with 122 young people was an exciting morning of learning and ideas sharing, using fashion, worms, water testing kits and lego!
This was also our first fundraising via match funding with The Big Give Green Match. Thanks to OVO Foundation for matching all donations during a week in April, enabling us to provide prizes and transport to the Awards ceremony on 30th September 2025.
We plan to run this as an annual competition, encouraging and inspiring even more climate action projects.
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## Sparks Bristol
Sparks Bristol is a groundbreaking sustainable, creative education hub which we opened with our partner organisation, Artspace Lifespace, in May 2023 in the ex-M&S building in Broadmead. It has been very exciting to celebrate the second anniversary of Sparks in May, as well as welcome our millionth visitor through the doors on World Environment Day, 5th June 2025!
This year Sparks has achieved:
- » Over 15,000 items saved from landfill
- » 2124 people received energy advice
- » 253 bikes repaired
- » 500 jewellery items repaired by Sorrel Garden
- » Our cafe saved 316 meals saved, 853 kg CO[2] avoided by using Too Good to Go
- » Hundreds of items repaired at the Repairium
- » Over 200 local traders, artists and makers supported to run their own business
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Ally Hart mural
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## **Here are some other highlights from this year.**
**Sparks Bristol was awarded silver in the 2024 Bristol Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards.** The awards recognise businesses that provide memorable experiences for visitors to the region.
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## **Reimagining the high street**
Sparks Bristol was also chosen this year as one of 4 exemplar projects by the national think-tank Power to Change. Department stories: How communities are - reimagining a national institution Power to Change.
We have hosted groups from around the world who are keen to learn from Sparks’ experience and to set up a similar project in their own high street. We are working on a Toolkit to equip other charities, community groups and organisations to take on empty buildings and create a sustainability hub that works for their own local communities. Watch this space!
## **Repair and upskilling**
Global Goals Centre facilitated the first free family-friendly World Bike Day event in Sparks on 31st May 2025, in partnership with Bristol City Council, Fettle, Bristol Waste ReUse shops and Holy Spokes.
The aim was to promote the health and environmental benefits of cycling and enable more people to take part in cycling.
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## **Outcomes**
11 children took part in a workshop and treasure hunt about the benefits of active travel and 5 children took part in Bling Your Bike.
13 people learned bike repair skills - 6 at the puncture repair workshop, 7 at the brakes workshop.
Bristol Waste sold £100 worth of second hand bike spare parts.
Valuable partnerships established with Bristol City Council, Fettle, Bristol Waste, Holy Spokes, WECA and Avon and Somerset police bike marking.
This has resulted in free bike repair workshops and regular bike marking now being offered in Sparks each month. This helps us meet one of our core aims for next year, to upskill local people to repair and offer more repair in Sparks.
## **Responding to local need**
GGC commissioned 2 important pieces of research this year into Sparks, to enable us to meet more local need.
Immersive Learning from Sparks Bristol was an analysis by academics at the University of Birmingham, UWE and University of Bristol. Their conclusions were that Sparks is an important and effective community hub that brings hope for a more sustainable future to many visitors. It showed Sparks was reaching its aim of educating and inspiring the public to take action for climate and social change.
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**“Sustainable fashion, reusing things, repurposing things, repairing things, these are my main takeaways. When I see that, I think, Oh great”**
**“I’ve noticed things in various displays promoting sustainable fashion or working with community groups…key things stand out to me even if I’m just quickly passing through.”**
A Community Voices survey by a team of UWE students went out to neighbourhoods around Sparks to ask what they would like to see from a community hub in the high street. The integrated analysis confirms that Sparks Bristol has effectively built a strong base of young, engaged visitors who resonate with its sustainability and creative mission. Statistically significant findings confirm its place as a dynamic community hub. However, they did highlight challenges in accessibility that we are now addressing within the confines of a meanwhile-use building.
We have so much we still hope to deliver in Sparks! See our Culture Declares flm with our Sparks partners, Artspace Lifespace and Invisible Circus.
Huge thanks to National Lottery Reaching Communities, Van Neste, Quartet Community Foundation, UWE Community Fund and Postcode Lottery for their support of our work in Sparks this year.
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www.sparksbristol.co.uk
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## International Cultural Festival
Global Goals Centre, in partnership with African Voices Forum and Bristol’s Community Champions, held Bristol’s second International Cultural Festival in Sparks Bristol in June 2025, as part of Bristol’s Refugee Festival.
## **Aims of the Festival**
Showcase the diverse range of cultures and customs in Bristol that make it 1 unique and a strong city 2 of sanctuary Showcase sustainability initiatives around the world and in diverse communities 3 4
Celebrate the positive impact made by migrants and refugees in Bristol
Build on and develop the impacts of the 2024 Festival
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A fabulous day of food, art, craft, music and dance from 21 different cultural groups in Bristol! From African drummining and Peruvian dance to Chinese calligraphy and Eritrean cuisine, we took visitors on a global journey of exploration, celebrating Bristol as a city of sanctuary and diversity.
We were also delighted to screen the film ‘Dance for Peace’ in partnership with Bristol Link with Beira, to mark 50 years of Mozambican independence. This was followed by a fascinating Q&A with the film’s Director, Simon White.
## **Positive impacts from the International Cultural Festival**
## Our impact in numbers
**2987**
visitors to the Festival (approximately 1,200 more than a usual Saturday in Sparks)
**34**
stallholders from 21 different cultural backgrounds
performances and workshops **23**
**55**
volunteering hours
- » The Festival offered an inclusive atmosphere for entrepreneurs, artists, and community leaders from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to engage, get to know each other, and take actions for future cooperation.
- » The event offered traders from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to engage with new customers and trial what sells well
- » It enabled local people to experience different cultures through food, art, music and spoken word - many visitors said they had tried new things during the Festival, and learnt so much about different cultures
- » Now we have hosted 2 International Cultural Festivals in Sparks, we have a wonderfully diverse range of artists, performers and food providers to engage in future projects, and to be part of next year’s Festival!
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## **Feedback from trader Awad Elmubarak, Sudanese community**
“I started a small business about a year ago, there were a lot of ups and downs as it was quite stressful doing all of it online by myself as a 15 year old. However I started doing small online selling my bakery and treats around Bristol but the Sparks International Cultural Festival in particular really helped me understand there’s more to business than online trading and I can do the same thing in the real world. wThe Sparks International Festival improved my knowledge and skills to a greater extent. I met a lot of people who talked to me about what I can do to improve my business and advice which can help me achieve more in the future, it also built my confidence.”
We are so grateful to the National Lottery and our local Broadmead BID team for supporting the Festival this year so that we could pay even more performers and workshop leaders for their time and skills.
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## Wonderful Water Festival
The aim of this project was to inspire the public with a love of our waterways and to protect it, by saving water and reducing waste.
In partnership with John Wesley New Room and Broadmead BID we organised a community arts festival during April 2025. All ages were invited to enjoy exhibitions and allow creativity to flourish with a SPLASH! Dance workshop, drop-in games, and nature-themed craft workshops, as well as performing mermaids!
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Bristol Water held water testing sessions and Ocean Saver provided information and games around nature-friendly cleaning and laundry products.
We held 2 days of free drop-in workshops during February half term, creating water droplets from balloons and papier mache with 97 participants, all with water messaging to display during the Festival. And during the Easter holidays we had a total of 66 people take part in our Craft Workshops, and we are creating a giant Bristol waterways mural from the denim patches created.
We also had 14 children take part in the storytelling and activities led by Verity Jones on ‘DRY: Diary of a Water Superhero’.
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## Entrepreneur support for refugee and migrant start-ups
In response to local needs voiced by Community Champions and local refugee support groups, we ran a new business support programme for migrants and refugees looking to set up their own businesses. Created and led by our Inclusion Lead, the programme was funded by WECA, Bristol City Council and Levelling Up.
This programme ran from May to November 2024. In that time we have supported over 40 creative entrepreneurs and emerging artists from over 20 nationalities/ethnicities, providing training and mentorship services, offering support and referring them to the BrisBES programme for further training. Our support was crucial to enable particularly women and young entrepreneurs from refugee and migrant backgrounds to grow and sustain their creative and artistic work in the market.
## **Outcomes**
The programme provided 40 participants with practical skills to approach the business side of their practice with greater confidence and enthusiasm. Many artists lack access to the tools needed to manage their work as a viable business - as one respondent noted: “artists are not often taught these skills as part of their degree.”
All our current beneficiaries have expressed a clear demand for continued support in the form of our Support Evenings and sole trader mentorship.
We took special care to ensure inclusiveness to groups including refugees, migrants, the LGBTQ+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities. We achieved our aim of a minimum 60:40 female-to-male ratio, with childcare support reducing barriers to participation. The training programme was complemented by 1:1 mentoring
Through partnerships with local organizations Bristol Refugee Artist Collective, Bristol Black Creatives and the Creative Youth Network, we have connected participants to broader networks. We have reached our project aims, to enable migrants and refugees to contribute to Bristol’s vibrant, sustainable economy while advancing inclusion and diversity.
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## Community Threads
We have been delighted to provide funding support and a meeting space within Sparks for this sewing community group for migrant and refugee women. Participants/learners attending per session: 8 to 12 with new people joining every other week. Women from 19 years to 60 years from Sudan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Hongkong, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Romania, Eritrea, Nigeria, Nepal, South America..
## **Aims of the group**
Provide a welcoming and culturally sensitive environment.
Teach sewing and textile upcycling using sustainable and donated materials.
Foster social connections and emotional support within the group.
Enable skill-building that can lead to incomegenerating opportunities.
Encourage participants to express their creativity and identity through fashion.
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1. Skill Development - 100% of participants report improved sewing skills.Most of them have begun creating their own garments or upcycled items, and if not then they feel confident to do so. Some members have been offered small paid commissions.
2. Reducing loneliness and isolation - participants described feeling “more confident,” “less isolated,” and “stronger in a group.” Many found the space therapeutic and supportive, helping them adapt to a new country. It also has been a safe space for some women to talk about struggles in their personal lives.
3. Encouraging Sustainable practise - Textile waste is constantly being repurposed through upcycling projects. Discarded sewing machines being repaired and used.
4. Increased confidence - in May 2025 Community Threads (CT) collaborated with the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) for a dress making project called the Dorcas Dress Making Project. The participants contributed to the dress by making small patches of embroidered as well as patch work, by colouring on fabric etc. that was eventually sewn into a dress. The theme of the patch making was ‘Sharing Love’ and each participant expressed it through their language and their patches that were mindfully created. It was a unique experience for them and gave them a sense of accomplishment, as well as increased confidence through talking to visitors.
**“I really enjoyed the group. I felt at home every time I was there. It’s a welcoming atmosphere full of good conversations. We laugh a lot it is so good for my mental health. When I go home I feel like a different person and I feel very relaxed.”**
- Eritrean member
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## Developing volunteers and interns
## **The role of volunteers**
Volunteers undertake a wide range of roles, including repairing hundreds of items at Sparks’ volunteer-led Repairium, supporting events and workshops, surveying visitors and community members, providing energy advice, helping with craft sessions for families and supporting our education workshops.
We maintain a flexible model, and are keen to provide opportunities and experience to as many people as possible. For many this is a stepping stone towards employment, and we are always pleased to see our volunteers move on to paid work.
Our monitoring forms show that volunteers come from diverse communities around the world (only 30% identify as White British). 195 people have been inducted as Sparks volunteers, and in the last year, we are so grateful that people have volunteered 2,781 hours of their time.
**195 people have been inducted as Sparks volunteers, and in the last year, we are so grateful that people have volunteered 2,781 hours of their time.**
## **Placements, internships and work experience**
We’ve hosted a total of 33 students on university placements, internships and work experience placements over the past year. Their contributions have ranged from planning and marketing events, to surveying visitors and community members, analysing this data and assisting with education workshops for schools. We look forward to continuing to partner with local universities, schools and colleges to offer opportunities to students across the city.
In the past year we’ve developed partnerships with both City of Bristol College and SGS College, welcoming a total of 18 students from their supported internship programmes to Sparks. These
placements give students with special educational needs and disabilities hands on experience in a real workplace.
“Sparks has been an amazing placement for our learners. There are always well planned activities for them to engage in and the staff are gentle and considerate. Learners are given the opportunity to learn new skills, whilst also learning about the importance of sustainability. For several of our quieter or more anxious learners the experience has enabled them to be more confident and has boosted their independence. They are also learning to work together with different people (and different learners) and the whole experience is proving extremely
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beneficial for both them as individuals, and for their course as a whole, and we are very grateful for the opportunity Sparks has given them.”
## **Debbie Summerill, Industry Placement Co-ordinator for Foundation Studies (Filton and Stroud Campus)**
community needs, awareness of Sparks, and hopes for its future impact. Afterwards, the students involved in these projects scored themselves as significantly more confident about their interpersonal and monitoring and evaluation skills, and also reported that they felt much more connected to local communities in Bristol.
Over the past year we were delighted to benefit from UWE Bristol’s Community Fund which supported our work with student volunteers from UWE, enabling them to engage with the wider Bristol community. Thirteen students took part in two projects, one supporting and enhancing our events offer, and the other interviewing people across six diverse areas of Bristol, revealing
We’ve also become part of the University of Bristol’s Bristol PLUS Award, an employability initiative, encouraging students to develop skills and connect with local organisations. We’ve welcomed a number of Bristol PLUS volunteers over the past year, and were delighted to host a mutually beneficial PLUS skills session in February this year.
## **Corporate volunteering**
This year we welcomed corporate volunteers from the Environment Agency who helped decorate our community spaces ahead of the busy Christmas period. We are very grateful to Good Gym volunteers who have come and helped at Sparks with a number of tasks including helping put up and take down our Christmas decorations, redecorating our travel department and moving innumerable heavy objects around the building!
## **Outcomes for volunteers**
Many Sparks volunteers join us because they are keen to be part of the Sparks community, the project aligns with their values, and because they want to build their confidence and gain skills and experience. In our volunteer feedback survey, 100% of volunteers said they would recommend volunteering at Sparks, and all volunteers gave a maximum score for feeling more connected to the Bristol community after volunteering at Sparks. Volunteers also reported a significant increase in selfconfidence, skills, and social connection after volunteering with us.
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## Conclusion and Looking Ahead
Global Goals Centre is a micro charity, with a staff team of 2.8 full time equivalents, so we are punching well above our weight! As well as a highly experienced, skilled and hardworking team, we have excellent support from our Trustee team and have been able to deliver so much more thanks to our partners and collaborations. We are always open to developing new partnerships to increase our reach and social purpose, so please get in touch if you have an idea we can help develop with you.
As we embark on our third year at Sparks Bristol, we are looking to increase our education and skills impacts. We aim to deliver a fun interactive trail around Sparks to engage more visitors with practical actions they can take to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as develop an immersive experience pilot with UWE. We are keen to increase our Repair offering in Sparks, including increasing repair skills training. This will be kick-started by International Repair Day activities on 18th October.
True to our education aims, we will continue to run the Earth Day Heroes project which has been so successful in year one. We also have ambitions for Bristol to become the first city to commit to an ethical school uniform policy across our schools, to address the high cost of uniforms to carers and to the environment.
## **Follow our progress www.globalgoalscentre.org**
## **Jenny Foster and Manu Maunganidze, Co-Directors, on behalf of the team**
Manu and Jenny with GGC Ambassador, Mya-Rose Craig and the Lord Mayor and consort.
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Thanks to all our sponsors and funders this year
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# **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE CIO REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025**
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **CHARITY NAME**
Global Goals Centre
## **Registered Charity number**
1187048
**CIO Number on Registrars’ Company Names Index (maintained by Companies House)** CE020077
## **Registered Office**
Sparks Bristol 78, Broadmead Bristol BS1 3DS.
## **Trustees**
S Roser J Dainton S Garrett A N Hughes J K Eades E Deans MBE C D Pitt T Miran
## **Bankers**
Triodos Bank Deanery Road Bristol BS1 5AS
## **Independant Examiner**
JA Norval FCA 5 Lime Tree Grove Pill Bristol BS20 0HG
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## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
Global Goals Centre (“the Charity”) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation ("CIO") controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, its Constitution, and is a public benefit entity.
## **Risk management**
The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **The Objects of the CIO are:**
To advance the education of the public in Bristol and beyond in subjects relating to the following:
- sustainable development.
- the protection, enhancement and rehabilitation of the environment.
- the relief of poverty.
- conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities and how those may be improved.
- economic growth and urban or rural regeneration and how these things can be achieved in a sustainable manner.
In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power to establish or secure the establishment of an interactive education and visitor centre to educate the public.
In these objects, ‘sustainable development’ means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
## **Purpose**
Global Goals Centre’s educational objectives and purpose include the potential development of an interactive sustainable development education centre. Whilst we have yet to create a standalone facility, we have been able to use the space, educational facilities and all of the sustainable businesses in Sparks as an integral part of our package of workshops and events for school children and the wider public.
## **Introduction from the Chair of Trustees**
The second full year of GGC's work in Sparks has continued the striking reach of the project. Over a million people have passed through the doors in Broadmead, and the outreach work with communities has been exemplary. Nationally, we have become increasingly visible, with articles in national newspapers and media, and several awards for our sustainability work. In Novemeber 2024 GGC was awarded global recognition, when we won at the Okayama ESD awards. Again, personal highlights have been the cultural festival, but also the launch of the Earth Day Heroes project. GGC is in a fine state socially, financially and has a great set of staff and volunteers.
**Steve Roser, Chair of Trustees**
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **Financial Review and comments on accounts**
This years accounts are broadly similar to the last year, with a large proportion of the funding coming from the National Lottery. This channel of funding is secure until December 2026, so we have gained a commendable stability in our core level of funding. This has in turn made applying for future project funds easier, with a focus on obtaining clear project based financial structures, rather than a general pot. We have a smaller net income this year compared to last, mainly due to the fewer sponsors. We have made good progress with our partners AS/LS on developing a potential exit strategy and funding for it, which is the key risk factor for the Sparks project.
## **Reserves policy**
The reserves policy still stands at one month of costs and salaries, with the aim of increasing to 2 months by next year. All HR policies have been reviewed to move as many as possible onto payroll. This has helped foster a more sustainable feel to the finances.
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in the notes to the financial statements and comply with the Charity’s governing document, the Charities Act 2011 and the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
Approved by order of the board of trustees on 2nd April 2026 and signed on its behalf by:
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## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Global Goals Centre
I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Global Goals Centre ("the Charity”) for the year ended 30 June 2025.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the trustees of the Charity you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Charity's financial statements as carried out under section 145 of the Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statement
Your attention is to drawn to the fact that the Charity has prepared the financial statements in accordance with the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has been withdrawn. I understand that this has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
3. the financial statements do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached.
Signed **:**
Date:2nd April 2026
J A Norval FCA 5 Lime Tree Grove Pill Bristol BS20 0HG
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
|**note**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations
Charitable activities
2
Investments
**_Total_**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Charitable activities
3
Raising funds
**_Total_**
**NET INCOME / (EXPENDITURE) AND**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|**Unrestricted**
**funds 2025**
**Restricted**
**funds 2025**
**Total funds**
**2025**
**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
40,590
94,489
**135,079**
156,572
16,702
-
**16,702**
21,895
695
-
**695**
415|
|---|---|
||57,987
94,489
**152,476**
178,882|
||48,045
87,333
**135,378**
149,142
7,227
6,300
**13,527**
12,992|
||55,272
93,633
**148,905**
162,134|
||2,715
856
**3,571**
16,748
30,336
19,572
**49,908**
33,160|
||33,051
20,428
**53,479**
49,908|
|**GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
**BALANCE SHEET**
**30 June 2025**
**note**
**TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
Office equipment
5
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Other debtors
Cash at bank
**_Total Current Assets_**
**CREDITORS**
**Amounts falling due within one year:**
6
**_Net Current Assets_**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
Restricted funds
8
Unrestricted funds
**FUNDS AT 30 JUNE 2025**|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**841**
1,122|
|---|---|
||**550**
14,211
**59,470**
38,835|
||**60,020**
**53,046**|
||**7,382**
4,260|
|||
||**52,638**
48,786|
||**53,479**
49,908|
||**20,428**
19,572
**33,051**
30,336|
||**53,479**
49,908|
These financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 2nd April 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
Steve Roser Chair of Trustees
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **NOTE 1 ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these financial statements. The financial statements of the Charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)' and with the Charities Act 2011 and UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
The financial statements have been prepared to give a ‘true and fair’ view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a ‘true and fair view’. This departure has involved following the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) rather than the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice effective from 1 April 2005 which has since been withdrawn.
## **Fixed assets**
Fixed assets are recognised as cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is calculated so as to write off the cost of an asset, less its estimated residual value, over the useful life of that asset as follows: Equipment - 25% per annum on cost
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the Charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the Charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Charitable activities comprise those costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both the costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
## **Taxation**
The Charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the Charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
|**NOTE 2**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Total funds**|
|**INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**|**funds**|**funds**||**2025**|
||**£**|**£**||**£**|
|Sparks|16,702||-|**16,702**|
Income from Sparks is sponsorship from local and national businesses and widening educational aims by renting space to businesses promoting sustainable development goals. Sparks is a physical centre for Sustainable Development Goals learning and engagement in Bristol city centre
|**INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
**Prior year comparatives**
Sparks
**NOTE 3**
**EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
**note**
Salaries and pension costs
4
Project consultancy fees
Sparks*
Other project costs
Digital costs
Office equipment depreciation
5
Accountancy and legal fees
Independent examiner's fees
Sundry expenses|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
21,985
-
**21,985**|
|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
**£**
**£**
13,948
63,688
**77,636**
26,209
14,276
**40,485**
0
**-**
5,818
7,518
**13,336**
834
1,410
**2,244**
280
0
**280**
0
**-**
33
90
**123**
923
351
**1,274**|
||48,045
87,333
**135,378**|
*Expenditure on Sparks is the fitting out of a vacant department store in Bristol with the aim of creating a space that can take our educational aims forward.
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **NOTE 4 STAFF COSTS AND NUMBERS**
|**NOTE 4**
**STAFF COSTS AND NUMBERS**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**2025**||2024||
||**£**||£||
|The aggregate payroll costs were:|||||
|Wages and salaries|76,353||32,583||
|Employer's pension contributions||1,283||702|
||77,636||33,285||
|The average weekly number of employees was 5 (2024: 2)|||||
||**Office**||Office||
||**Equipment**||Equipment||
|**NOTE 5**|**2025**||2024||
|**TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**|**£**||£||
|**Cost**|||||
|At 1 July 2024||1,496||-|
|Additions||-||1,496|
|At 30 June 2025||1,496||1,496|
|**Depreciation**|||||
|At 1 July 2024||374||-|
|Charge for the year||281||374|
|At 30 June 2025||655||374|
|**Net book value**|||||
|At 1 July 2024||1,122||-|
|At 30 June 2025||841||1,122|
|**NOTE 6**|||||
|**CREDITORS**|**2025**||2024||
|**Amounts falling due within one year**|**£**||£||
|Other creditors||2,314||2,160|
|Taxation and social security||4,661||1,785|
|Pension costs||317||225|
|Accruals||90||90|
|**_Total Current Liabilities_**||7,382||4,260|
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **NOTE 7 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES COMPARATIVES for the Year Ended 30 June 2024**
|||**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|
**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
||**funds 2024**|**2024**|**2024**|**2023**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**|||||
|Donations|66,261|90,311|**156,572**|204,914|
|Charitable activities|21,895|-|**21,895**|981|
|Investments|415|-|**415**|91|
|**_Total_**|88,571|90,311|**178,882**|205,986|
|**EXPENDITURE ON:**|||||
|Charitable activities|39,316|109,826|**149,142**|192,630|
|Raising funds|567|12,425|**12,992**|9,600|
|**_Total_**|39,883|122,251|**162,134**|202,230|
|**NET INCOME / (EXPENDITURE)**|48,688|(31,940)|**16,748**|3,756|
|**TRANSFERS BETWEEN FUNDS**|||-|-|
|**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**|48,688|(31,940)|**16,748**|3,756|
|**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**|||||
|forward|(18,352)|51,512|**33,160**|29,404|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**|30,336|19,572|**49,908**|33,160|
## **GLOBAL GOALS CENTRE**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) for the Year Ended 30 June 2025**
## **NOTE 8 CHARITY FUNDS**
|**Restricted fund names**
Lottery Community
Nisbet Trust
Youth Climate Action
Van Neste
Sparks
BrisBES
Quartet
Quartet Community Foundation
Wesleyan
**Total restricted funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total Funds**|**At 1 July**
**2024**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**At 30 June**
**2025**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
57,014
(56,678)
336
-
20,595
(13,247)
7,348
-
10,500
(600)
9,900
-
5,000
(2,611)
2,389
7,829
-
(7,829)
0
4,133
-
(4,133)
0
1,646
-
(1,646)
0
380
1,380
(1,305)
455
5,584
-
(5,584)
0|
|---|---|
||19,572
94,489
(93,633)
**20,428**|
||30,336
57,987
(55,272)
**33,051**|
||49,908
152,476
(148,905)
**53,479**|
## **Purposes and restrictions of funds**
## **Lottery Community**
Through Sparks Bristol - to improve community cohesion, increase employment opportunities, tackle climate change and inequalities, and encourage behaviour change to help achieve the SDGs.
Funding is restricted to these aims and to team salaries, public engagement and volunteering opportunities, tackling climate change and inequalities, and achieving the SDGs.
## **Nisbet Trust**
Climate Education work with young people, especially from deprived backgrounds,
and offering free workshops in school holidays for families
## **Youth Climate Action**
To enable young people aged 15-21 to be part of the Earth day Heroes project, partcularly focussed on ethnically diverse young people and those with special educational needs. Micro grants for materials, travel and support.
## **Van Neste**
Climate education work and Community Threads sewing group for migrant and refugee women **Sparks**
To develop the Sparks centre which is used to reach out to educate a very broad, and the sometimes difficult to reach, parts of the population in how we can all work towards a better, more sustainable world. The National Lottery Funding is restricted towards these aims.
## **BrisBES**
Fund used for staff time to develop and deliver entrepreneurship training for refugees and migrants, and for Cultural Festival. **Quartet**
Support for developing entrepreneurial skills in marginalised groups.
## **Quartet Community Foundation**
For supporting sustainable education with core GGC costs.
## **Wesleyan**
Support for staff lead on education development.
## **CHARITY FUNDS COMPARATIVES**
|**Restricted fund names**
Sparks
Web
BrisBES
John James
Quartet
Quartet Dcommunity Foundation
Wesleyan
**Total restricted funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
**Total Funds**|**At 1 July**
**2023**
**Income**
**Expenditu**
**re**
**At 30**
**June 2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
38,652
63,991
(94,814)
7,829
12,860
-
(12,860)
-
-
6,716
(2,583)
4,133
-
5,250
(5,250)
-
-
5,000
(3,354)
1,646
-
1,380
(1,000)
380
-
7,974
(2,390)
5,584|
|---|---|
||51,512
90,311
(122,251)
**19,572**|
||(18,352)
88,571
(39,883)
**30,336**|
||33,160
178,882
(162,134)
**49,908**|
## Web
The websites for both the charity and Sparks have been designed to make our education aims accessible for all. The funding from the Avast Foundation is restricted towards these aims.
## John James
For support for educational and cultural development.
## **NOTE 9**
## **TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the years ended 30 June 2025 and 30 June 2024.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the years ended 30 June 2025 and 30 June 2024.
## **NOTE 10**
## **RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
There were no related party transactions for the years ended 30 June 2025 and 30 June 2024.
## Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Global Goals Centre
I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Global Goals Centre ("the Charity”) for the year ended 30 June 2025.
## Responsibilities and basis of report
As the trustees of the Charity you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Charity's financial statements as carried out under section 145 of the Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5) (b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statement
Your attention is to drawn to the fact that the Charity has prepared the financial statements in accordance with the relevant version of the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has been withdrawn. I understand that this has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
3. the financial statements do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the financial statements to be reached.
Signed **:**
Date:2nd April 2026
J A Norval FCA 5 Lime Tree Grove Pill Bristol BS20 0HG