LONDON SPARK

Registered charity 1165809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We organise events to bring people together and let different communities meet their Polish neighbours. London Spark supports a Polish community through running Polish Citizens Advice Centre or cooperating with Polish Saturday Schools. It also promotes Polish culture by organising workshops or outdoor events.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG MEMBERS OF THE POLISH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY BY PREVENTING MEMBERS OF THAT COMMUNITY FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY. 2) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, GENDER, DISABILITY , SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(C) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS;(D) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN POLISH CULTURE, TRADITION AND HERITAGE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £46 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £27,166 and total expenditure of £27,212. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds were in a deficit of £24,867, while restricted funds stood at £19,935, resulting in total net assets of £4,932. The trustees consider current reserve levels sufficient to meet short-term obligations despite risks related to funding uncertainty and reliance on restricted project funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 31/03/2023 (received 26/03/2024, 55 days after the 31/01/2024 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).

• Hammersmith United Charities — “Dzięki wsparciu Hammersmith United Charities zespół organizacji spotkał się na świątecznej kolacji...” (source page)
• Mleczko — “Naszym największym sponsorem jest firma Mleczko, z którą współpracujemy od 2017 kiedy zorganizowaliśmy Bal Charytatywny 'Dałeś radę? Pomóż i…” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• WLODZIMIERZ WOJCIECH WITKOWSKIchair
• MAREK WALCZAK
• RADOSLAW STASZEWSKI

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SPARK ARTS FOR CHILDREN.

• THE SPARK ARTS FOR CHILDREN income £534k
• SPARK SOMERSET income £1.6m
• Spark2Life income £1.5m
• THE LONDON WELSH CENTRE TRUST income £535k
• LONDON SCRAP PROJECT LIMITED income £78k
• SPARK COMMUNITY SPACE income £267k

Side by side with its peers

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