STAR

Registered charity 1160614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STAR FOUNDATION

To advance amateur sport and arts for disadvantaged people. Includes grants and fundraising to eligible individuals, clubs and schools, and the provision of community facilities and equipment. To advance environmental protection and the relief of poverty for low income families. This is by the provision of community facilities for the recycling and resale of furniture, clothes and household items.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE AMATEUR SPORT (THAT IS, SPORTS OR GAMES WHICH PROMOTE HEALTH BY INVOLVING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SKILL OR EXERTION), THE ARTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE UK, FOR YOUNG, OLD AND/OR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE. THIS IS BY THE PROVISION OF, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, GRANTS AND FUNDRAISING TO ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS, TEAMS, CLUBS AND SCHOOLS, AND THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES TO DEVELOP CAPACITY AND SKILLS, TO PROVIDE EQUIPMENT, AND FOR THE RECYCLING OF FURNITURE, CLOTHES, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. (B) TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE UK FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES. THIS IS BY THE PROVISION OF, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES FOR THE RECYCLING AND RESALE OF FURNITURE, CLOTHES, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS AT LOW COST.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Staffordshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is working towards building a minimum of one month's reserves, which remains a major priority. The charity generated income from various sources including shop sales, book recycling, and textiles, while also providing significant free activities to schools and supporting families in need.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 04/04/2025 (received 28/04/2026, 83 days after the 04/02/2026 due date); year ending 04/04/2024 (received 13/03/2025, 37 days after the 04/02/2025 due date); year ending 04/04/2023 (received 24/04/2024, 80 days after the 04/02/2024 due date); year ending 04/04/2022 (received 15/03/2023, 39 days after the 04/02/2023 due date); year ending 04/04/2021 (received 14/11/2022, 283 days after the 04/02/2022 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Awards for All — “Funders: National Lottery Awards for All” (source page)
• Unltd — “Funders: National Lottery Awards for All Unltd” (source page)
• Sisu — “Funders: National Lottery Awards for All Unltd Sisu” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 04/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (71% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Harvey
• Jennifer Kelly
• Peter Easy

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Star Community Foundation.

• Star Community Foundation income £300k
• SPECIAL STARS FOUNDATION income £140k
• STAR (STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES) income £167k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE NORTHERN STAR COMMUNITY ARTS income £86k
• MEGANS STARR FOUNDATION income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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