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.

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

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.

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

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 TURNTABLE FURNITURE.

• TURNTABLE FURNITURE income £152k
• COMMUNITY FURNITURE STORE (YORK) LTD income £687k
• spruse Stevenage Reuse Scheme income £139k
• STAR (STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES) income £167k
• FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £21.7m
• Bolton Community Furniture Store Limited income £371k

Side by side with its peers

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