CREATIVE SPARKWORKS

Registered charity 1146863 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We deliver visual art, film & media. craft, skills & employment training courses to unemployed young adults, young offenders, economically & socially disadvantaged local residents & mental health service users. Our activities are tailored to meet the needs of our client base: film making, murals, printmaking, ceramics & mosaics.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE YOUNG PEOPLE IN LIFE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH ACCREDITED EDUCATIONAL CREATIVE ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY; 2)TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION OF YOUNG OFFENDERS AND THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK OF OFFENDING BY EDUCATING SUCH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS WITH THE AIM OF ASSISTING SUCH PEOPLE TO RE-INTEGRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH SKILLS TO HELP THEM FIND EMPLOYMENT AND REHABILITATE THEMSELVES; 3)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £16,526 during the year, resulting in net assets of £8,637. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity's reserves policy targets £3,750, which is above the actual net assets held.

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 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 02/08/2024 (received 05/06/2025, 3 days after the 02/06/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Sylvia Edwardschair
• ADRIAN JAMES JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• AYO BODUNRIN
• JOHN PALFREY-SMITH
• Karen McCormick
• Mark Crowhurst · trustee of 1 other charity
• SHUBHAM MAURYA
• Sylvia Edwards
• ZAHRA MALIK
• ZAINAB ABRAR

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

Operates in: Croydon · Hackney · Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark · Wandsworth

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK.

• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m
• Creative Kids Centre income £173k
• CREATIVE MENTOR NETWORK income £404k
• NEW CREATIONS income £183k
• CRAFTWORKS COMMUNITY LIMITED income £2.0m
• ORGANICARTS income £73k

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