SHINING STARS

Registered charity 1160478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Summer BBQ held annually for children and young people with disabilities and their families to socialise, network and escape the pressure of everyday life. Annual Christmas party with the same purpose as above. Fundraising Gala Evening in October to raise vital funds for the charity. Any other fundraising activities decided by the trustees that will ensure the charity can continue running.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT THEIR DISABILITIES, BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Caerphilly, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£6k
Latest spending
£5k
Registered
2015

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 01/02/2026, 1 day after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 20/02/2025, 20 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 12/06/2024, 133 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 21/02/2023, 21 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 30/03/2022, 58 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£6k£5k
31/03/2024£5k£3k
31/03/2023£2k£4k
31/03/2022£1k£921
31/03/2021£2k£1k

Common questions

Who funds SHINING STARS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SHINING STARS as a grant recipient include THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION, THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION, The Caring Family Foundation.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
The Caring Family FoundationFY2024Unverified read£250kChild poverty
THE OPENWORK FOUNDATIONFY2023£15kSponsored Grant
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023Unverified read£2k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2022amount not stated
The Caring Family FoundationFY2025amount not statedChild Poverty

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund23/08/2016£2kWinter Wonderland