## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** From Period start date: 25/06/2022 – 24/06/2023 Charity name: THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION UK Charity registration number: 1192213 ## **Objectives and Activities** The Sparkle Foundation is a UK based charity helping people in need across the UK run by volunteers. We support people living in poverty, or in crisis, ill health, domestic abuse situations, bereaved, often people who have nowhere else to go to help their situation and help them move forward. We deliver our services with heart, soul and without judgement, enabling people to feel equal. What the charity does: General Charitable Purposes Disability The Prevention or Relief of Poverty Who the charity helps: Children/young People Elderly/old People People with Disabilities How the charity helps: Makes Grants to Individuals Makes Grants to Organisations Provides Services Acts as an Umbrella or Resource Body Where the charity operates: Throughout England and Wales ## **Achievements and Performance** The Sparkle Foundation UK was born due to a multi need basis for public benefit. The Sparkle Foundation UK charity is run by volunteers. The Sparkle Foundation UK has had a challenging year like many crisis charities, with supporting service users who are experiencing the long-term effects of COVID, the cost-of-living crisis, mental and physical health challenges. We have seen a huge increase in demand for our services with the effects of the cost-of-living crisis that has pushed people into poverty and people already living in dire situations pushed deeper into poverty. The trustees, volunteers and supporters have worked incredibly hard to support our service users through hard times, in a discreet fashion. Our charity is very mindful not make people feel like they are a charity case. Whilst there is no shame in needing support, we look at the best and most discreet way to make all feel equal. We have funded and provided hundreds of fully funded therapy hours for children and adults. Our Men’s Mental Health groups Steve’s Legacy has helped many service users, with an educational approach to therapy and support. This has been across the UK. We supply group therapy, 121 and work with other agencies, social prescribers, GP’s, social services, schools, colleges, local community groups, other charities, to name a few and quite often we are the only immediate resource. We also support services users with sign posting to other support services where needed. Our therapists have supported women, men, children in very challenging circumstances, often people who cannot access other support services easily due to them being over-subscribed with very long waiting lists. These are often people at the point of taking their own life or self-harming. Children effected by abuse or bereavement for example who have nowhere else to turn to, we have been able to support them and make a difference to their lives. We have widened how we support people, those living in social isolation, people who are lonely, neurodiverse, have no support, with getting prescriptions, shopping, food vouchers, food parcels, doctors’ appointments. Our community lunch clubs have been very popular for people of all ages. We have been able to support local sports clubs through our corporate supporters, with new commercial kitchens, building materials, clothing, travel, events, in order for them to remain open and of benefit to the community. Our Trustees have 60 years of combined experience in the charity field and have lived experience of the issues we deal with. We put that experience to good use. The trustees are exceptionally proud as it’s very hard work but worthwhile being part of The Sparkle Foundation UK. The charity sector and challenges all charities faces are ever evolving and we are doing everything within our power by using the charity commission trustee guidelines and professional guidance to best serve the public and remain compliant. ## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (incorporating income and expenditure account) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 24th June 2023** |_Notes_
**Incoming resources**
**Incoming resources**
**from generated funds**
Donations
_2_
Restricted Grants
_2_
Unrestricted Grants
_2_
Fundraising Income
_2_
**Total incoming**
**resources**
**Resources expended**
Cost of generating funds
_3_
Governance costs
_4_
**Total resources**
**expended**
**Net (outgoing)/incoming**
**resources for the**
**year/net**
**(expenditure)/income**
**for the year**
Total funds brought
forward
**Total funds carried**
**forward**|Restricted
funds
£
-
18,200
-
-
18,200
12,820
1,441
14,261
3,939
-
3,939|Unrestricted
funds
£
23,055
-
9,500
50
32,605
20,088
13,400
33,488
- 883
341
- 542|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
**23,055**
**18,200**
**9,500**
**50**
**50,805**
**32,908**
**14,841**
**47,749**
**3,056**
**341**
**3,397**|Total
2022
£
9,796
40,422
11,664
13,555
75,438| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||62,523
12,836| |||||75,359| |||||79
262| |||||341| **BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 24th June 2023** |_Notes_
**Fixed assets**
8
**Current assets**
Cash at bank
Cash in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling**
**due within one year**
_7_
**Net current assets**
Total assets less current
liabilities
Accruals and deferred income
_7_
**Net assets**
**Funds**
_9_
Restricted funds
Unrestricted funds
**Total funds**|**£**
5,979
-|**2023**
**£**
£
**-**

1,058

523

1,581


-
709
**4,295**
**-**
**900**
**3,395**
**-**
**542**
**3,939**
**3,397**|2022
**£**
270




1,141| |---|---|---|---| ||**5,979**
**-**
**1,683**||| ||||| ||||-
800| ||||341| ||||**-**
**341**| ||||**341**| ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 24[th] June 2023** ## **2 DONATIONS** |Restricted
funds
£
General donations
0
Raffle/Auction income
0
Restricted Grants
18200
Unrestricted Grants
0
18200
**3**
**COSTS OF GENERATING VOLUNTARY**
**INCOME**
Restricted
funds
£
Fundraising & promotions
0
Direct Charity Spending
12820
12820
**4**
**GOVERNANCE COSTS**
Restricted
funds
£
Accountancy and bookkeeping
0
General Administrative Costs
1441
1441|Unrestricted
funds
£
23,055
50
0.00
9,500
32,605
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,944
18,144
20,088
Unrestricted
funds
£
1,400
12,000
13,400|**Total**
**2023**
**£**
**23,055**
**50**
**18,200**
**9,500**
**50,805**
**Total**
**2023**
**£**
**1,944**
**30,964**
**32,908**
**Total**
**2023**
**£**
**1,400**
**13,441**
**14,841**|Total
2022
£
18,698
0
2,500
42,419| |---|---|---|---| ||||63,617| ||||Total
2022
£
6,350
56,173| ||||62,523| ||||Total
2022
£
1,018
16,097| ||||17,115| ## **NET 5 INCOME** None of the trustees (or any persons connected with them) received expenses during the year and no remuneration was paid to trustees (or any persons connected with them) as workshop leaders. During the year, no Trustees received any benefits in kind. ## **STAFF 6 COSTS** The charity has no employees other than the Trustees, who did not receive any remuneration. No employee received remuneration amounting to more than £60,000 in the year. ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 24[th] June 2023** ## **7 CREDITORS** |**CREDITORS**|| |---|---| |Trade creditors
PAYE/NI/Pensions/wages
Accruals and deferred
income|**2023**
2022
**£**
£
**918**
709
**765**-
**900**
800| ||**2,583**
1,509| ## **TANGIBLE FIXED 8 ASSETS** |**Cost**
At 25th June 2022
Additions
Disposals
As at 24th June 2023
**Depreciation**
At 25th June 2022
Charge for the year
As at 24th June 2023
**Net book value**
At 25th June 2022
As at 24th June 2023|Plant &
Machinery
£
360
0
270
90
90
0
90
270
0|Motor
Vehicles
£
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|Computer
Equipment
£
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0|**Total**
**£**
**360**
**0**
**270**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**90**| |||||**90**
**0**| |||||**90**| |||||**270**| |||||**0**| ## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 24[th] June 2023** ## **STATEMENT OF 9 FUNDS** |**STATEMENT OF**
**FUNDS**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |General fund
Restricted funds
Total of funds|**Brought**
**Forward**
**£**
341
0
**0**|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
32,605
18,200
**50,805**|**Resources**
**Expended**
**£**
33,488
14,261
**47,749**|**Carried**
**Forward**
**£**
**-542**
**3,939**| |||||**3,397**| ## **Analysis of net assets between funds** |**funds**||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Restricted|Unrestricted||**Total**||Total| ||funds|funds||**2023**||2022| ||£|£|**£**||£|| |Fixed assets|0|0||**0**||270| |Current assets|3,939|||**3939**||1581| |Current liabilities|0|-542||**-542**||-1509| ||3939|-542||3,397||341| CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examinerfs report on the FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts Section A Report to the trustetsl member8 of Tr Spwkk Foundati￿ UK On •ccounts for the ￿•r 24th June 20TJ Charity no (rf arby) 1192213 Set on p•oe8 I rekh)rt to the tA￿tee$ on my exami)a1￿ ol the accounts ofthe above ¢hanty rthe Tru¥YI fiy year ended 241(W2023 Responsibilitie¥ •nd b￿1¥ of report A¥ the thanV¥ you we resFonsitle tr the prepwatw of accI￿nts in a¢￿dance *Tlh the rewirements of the Charilies Act 2011 (Ihe ACVI. I repjrt n respect of my exarninakn crf Trusys accrrtw￿ camed out under ¥ec￿n 145 of the 2011 Act and in W￿ng ¢KJt my exwnInat￿n. I have folbwed all the applicable Eh"rec1Th￿ gpM ty the Charty commis5K￿ unthr ¥ec￿n 145{SXbl of the Act. kn(kpendent e￿nIne¢S $L￿eMentI have ccrfnF4etepJ my examinathjn. I confvm that ￿ material matters have me to my attentson in C(￿￿e¢ll)n Ihe examin8tKx) (other than that disdosed ￿k)W ') which gNes me cause to believe that in. material Ihe ￿(M￿lIr￿j re¢ords Y￿re not kept li aCc￿danCe *lh teclion 130 of Ihe Charibes Ac( or the accounts did rnt aCt￿d with the aceounting rtcc¢ds," ( the accounts did mt comply ¥nth the applicab￿ requ¥ements con¢emry ￿ f(xm and ¢ontent of 8ccwnts 8et out in the Charibes (Acc￿nts and ReF(Jrt51 Regulabon5 3x18 ¢Aher lh￿ reqLNremurt Ihal the accounts give a and f￿ view wthi¢h is not a matter can￿dEred as part of ￿ WKlepend2nt examinat￿. I have no concerns aTrJ have ￿me ocr088 rK) olher matters n connection lith the examnatKsn to 7hthich attent*M SIK￿k1 be dra*n n this rep*Nt in crfder to enaL4e a proper Un￿rstand￿ of the aCC￿nts ts) be reached. * prte8se ddete the ii? the brnckets rf t*) not apply. Dale: 18ffj4124 Signed: Gattht Rekwrt proleMi(￿•l qualtfication(81 ￿ b(xty NIA IER Oct 2018 {rf any): 41 Tankemlle Street Hartle[￿1 TS26 8DT Section B Only cornplete rf the examiner needs to highlTrghl matenal rnatters of concem {8ee CC32, IndeFEndent examinat￿ of chwity a¢count*' directi(￿9 and gu*1￿Ce for examiner81. Give here thtai18 of any items thal the examiner *ishe• lo dwlox. IER Oct 2018