SPARKES HOME, SRI LANKA

Registered charity 1128189 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve suffering and homelessness and to assist with the education and pastoral care of the people of Sri Lanka, in particular by the establishment and maintenance of children's home and pre-schools.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SUFFERING AND HOMELESSNESS AND TO ASSIST WITH THE EDUCATION AND PASTORAL CARE OF THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA, IN PARTICULAR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MANTAINENCE OF A CHILDREN'S HOME.

Area of benefit: SRI LANKA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity is in the process of winding down its activities, with funding set to cease from January 2027. It has ceased fundraising and holds unrestricted reserves of £54,936, which are sufficient to cover remaining commitments through the end of the 2026 financial year. The accounts indicate no material uncertainty regarding going concern, as funds are adequate for the planned wind-down period.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 — Sparkes Home Sri Lanka (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP GAYchair
• CAROLINE CLARE STRATTON
• DAVID INNES
• Duncan Ian Sparkes
• EDWARD STRATTON
• JULIET INNES STOKER

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

Operates in: Sri Lanka

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SERENDIP CHILDREN'S HOME.

• SERENDIP CHILDREN'S HOME income £167k
• KARUVI (SRDA) - UK income £27k
• THE SPENCER HOMES CHARITY income £42k
• SPARKS OF HOPE income £95k
• EXTRA COVER SRI LANKA income £95k
• SPARKS OF SUCCESS LTD income £66k

Side by side with its peers

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