## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 20/07/2021 Period start date To 31/03/2022 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Spark Charity**
**Charity registration number:** 1195226
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the Para 1.17 To relieve the needs of women aged 16 and
purposes of the charity over who have suffered trauma and distress
as set out in its caused by sexual and/or emotional abuse.
governing document
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and a)Providing or assisting in the provision of
1.19
activities in relation to services and facilities that rehabilitate women
those purposes for the facing these issues such as therapy, counselling,
public benefit, in and mentoring services; b)Seeking to empower,
particular, the activities, educate and sponsor women through regular
projects or services
seminars and online discussions, sponsorship,
identified in the
social activities, mentoring, therapy, education,
accounts.
and self-care activities; and c)Assisting women
in working towards a better quality of life
through further education, career progression
and entrepreneurship.
Statement confirming Para 1.18 I can confirm the trustees have
whether the trustees had access and regarded the
have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity
guidance issued by the Commission on public benefit.
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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SORP reference **Reviewed annually by all trustees** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **Reviewed annually by all trustees** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **Reviewed annually by all trustees**
Para 1.38
Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference **Following on from COVID, most communications to our beneficiaries have been online** Summary of the main **through talks and webinars** Para 1.20 achievements of the **providing advice, support and** charity, identifying the **guidance. Have built a social** difference the charity’s **media presence and a small** work has made to the **community of women.** circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.
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Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 £0
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining Para 1.22 The income and property of the CIO must be
the policy for holding applied solely towards the promotion of the
reserves stating why objects.
they are held
No charity trustee or connected person may:
(a) buy or receive any goods or services from
the CIO on terms preferential to those
applicable to members of the public; (b) sell
goods, services, or any interest in land to the
CIO; (d) receive any other financial benefit from
the CIO; unless the payment or benefit is
permitted by sub-clause (2) of this clause or
authorised by the court or the prior written
consent of the Charity Commission (“the
Commission”) has been obtained. In this
clause, a “financial benefit” means a benefit,
direct or indirect, which is either money or has
a monetary value.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £0
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 Has not resumed fundraising and
reserves and events after COVID
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 n/a
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 n/a
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
charity
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 CIO
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Apart from the first charity trustees, every
methods including appointed trustee must be appointed [for a
details of any term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at
constitutional provisions a properly convened meeting of the charity
e.g. election to post or
trustees. (b) In selecting individuals for
name of any person or
appointment as appointed charity trustees, the
body entitled to appoint
charity trustees must have regard to the skills,
one or more trustees
knowledge and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO.
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name SPARK Charity
Other name the charity n/a
uses
Registered charity 1195226
number
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Charity’s principal Hart House
address
Kimpton Road
lu2 0la
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Danielle Whole year
1
Abraham
2 Clair Merchant Whole year
Adedayo Whole year
3
Akintujoye
4
5
6
7
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10
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity
Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements n/a for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** DAbraham **Full name(s)** Danielle Abraham
**Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 04/02/2023