SPARKLES - SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME

Registered charity 1168036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sparkles supports children with Down's syndrome in Buckinghamshire by the provision of speech and language therapies, funding of physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions and organising appropriate leisure and recreational activities.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME LIVING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIES, FUNDING PHYSIOTHERAPY AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SESSIONS AND ORGANISING APPROPRIATE LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SUCH CHILDREN

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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Registered contact address: Slough, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a positive net profit of £44,890 for the year ending March 2025, driven by grant funding and donations. Per the trustees' report, cash reserves reached £72,762, which exceeds the stated target of £45,000, positioning the charity in a stronger financial state for future obligations.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 25/03/2024, 54 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sparkles - supporting children with Down’s Syndrome (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bekonscot model village / Roland Callingham Foundation — “Our Supporters Bekonscot model village / Roland Callingham Foundation” (source page)
• Royal Grammar School High Wycombe — “Royal Grammar School High Wycombe” (source page)
• The Longford Association — “The Longford Association” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kirsty MacCuishchair
• Dr GRAHAM SMITH
• Kathryn Louise Broadway
• Michael Herlihy

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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
• THE SPARKLE FOUNDATION income £924k
• SPARKLE (SOUTH WALES) income £917k
• DOWN SYNDROME UK income £455k
• SUNSHINE AND SMILES - LEEDS DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK income £389k
• PSDS - PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND THEIR FAMILIES income £206k

Side by side with its peers

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