SPARKLE SHEFFIELD

Registered charity 1126583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE REIDY YOUTH FOUNDATION

The charity undertakes projects that engage children, young people and families to take a full and productive role within society by raising awareness of the barriers they face and offering activities, support and mentoring to empower and enrich their lives.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLEBETWEEN AGES OF 0 AND 25 BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE ANDORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS AMEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIRSKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE INSOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION.2. TO ADVANCE THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, GENDER,DISABILITY , SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(C) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROMDIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.3. TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OFYOUNG PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £26,123 to £18,501 due to a net expenditure of £7,622 against incoming resources of £58,734. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £23,995 but carries a restricted fund deficit of £5,494. The trustees confirm the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sparkle Sheffield (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Lisa Philip
• Hyacinth Gayle
• JOY MCFARLANE
• Lorraine Smith
• Rachel Worboys
• Ryan Watson

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION.

• THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION income £924k
• THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION UK income £131k
• THE SHEFFIELD 1000-1 CHARITY income £64k
• THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £224k
• SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• SPARKS OF SUCCESS LTD income £66k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.