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Registered charity · Newport

Sparkle (South Wales)

Sparkle (South Wales) is a registered charity (number 1093690) based in Newport, governed by 8 trustees and chaired by Janet Mary Kelly since 2019. Latest income £917k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £917k (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
Monmouthshire, Newport City, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent and more
Website
www.sparkleappeal.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sparkle (South Wales)
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£917k£760k
  • 2024£639k£787k
  • 2023£647k£671k
Earlier years
  • 2022£729k£699k
  • 2021£527k£503k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES AND THE RELIEF OF SIBLINGS, PARENTS AND CARERS OF SUCH CHILDREN WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND ADVOCACY AND THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED

Grants received

23 grants · £1,423,368 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

4.4y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

7
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 7Other services 3Construction 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£917k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

7.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

124 from 83 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1093690
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 JUNE 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 15 JULY 2002 AND 2 SEPTEMBER 2010. as amended on 22 May 2019 as amended on 20 Jul 2021 as amended on 27 May 2021
Companies House
Company number 04238990 · Active
Contact on the register
01633748092 · Carla.Hopkins@wales.nhs.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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