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Registered charity · London

Spark2Life

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Throughout London, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Kent
Website
www.spark2life.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Spark2Life
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2021£959k£710k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 84% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND THE SAVING OF LIVES, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROMOTING THE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION OF PERSONS IN OR AT RISK OF ENTERING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE ENGAGED IN OR AT RISK OF BECOMING ENGAGED IN KNIFE CRIME AND VIOLENCE AFFECTING YOUNG PEOPLE.(B) TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY TO THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN DISPROPORTIONATELY REPRESENTED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND SCHOOL EXCLUSIONS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY PEOPLE OF BLACK CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN DESCENT;(C) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF KNIFE CRIME OR OTHER SERIOUS YOUTH VIOLENCE AND THEIR FAMILIES; AND(D) TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DEPLOYING HUMAN AND MATERIAL RESOURCES TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE RELIEF TO SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

9 grants · £203,765 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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

2.6y median 1y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 10Other services 2Professional services 2

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£1.5m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.5 in 2021

36 from 24 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.
92%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1121557
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3 AUGUST 2006 AS AMENDED ON 26 SEP 2022AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 15 JUL 2023
Companies House
Company number 05895562 · Active
Contact on the register
02045316208 · admin@spark2life.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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