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Registered charity (CIO) · Essex

The Sparkle Foundation

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £852k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Malawi
Website
www.thesparklefoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£852k£708k
  • 2023£740k£584k
  • 2022£471k£416k
Earlier years
  • 2021£388k£338k
  • 2020£288k£237k
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MALAWI BY THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS, AND UNDERSTANDING IN SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE AND BY PROVIDING FOOD AND WATER AND SANITATION FACILITIES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

5 trustees on the board

4.4y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

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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 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£852k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

11.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 10.2 in 2020

1
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
1161708
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 18 May 2015
Contact on the register
07870671100 · sarah@sparklemalawi.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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