THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPARKLE MALAWI

We improve the lives of vulnerable children and build brighter sustainable futures.We have a holistic approach to development, which incorporates education, medical care, nutrition and sustainability, creating lasting and measurable changes for our communities.We have 400 orphans and vulnerable children in our care across two sites, an outreach of 15,000 community members and 35 employees.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MALAWI BY THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS, AND UNDERSTANDING IN SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE AND BY PROVIDING FOOD AND WATER AND SANITATION FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose by 8% to £924,304, while total expenditure was £646,18, resulting in a net income for the year of £278,123. The charity held unrestricted funds of £996,051 at year-end, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of six months' running costs (£311,000). The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, citing adequate resources to support activities for the foreseeable future.

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
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Neville Priorchair
• Asabe Makele
• Gareth Dray
• Martin Waud
• Michael Burton

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

Operates in: Malawi

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION UK.

• THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION UK income £131k
• SPARKLE SHEFFIELD income £59k
• SPURGEONS income £12.6m
• SPARKLES - SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME income £95k
• SPARC TRUST income £299k
• THE SPARK ARTS FOR CHILDREN income £534k

Side by side with its peers

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