SPARX Charity

Registered charity 1182998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLUE PLANET CHARITY, REWIND THE PLANET

To provide facilities and opportunities in the interest of social welfare for recreation, sport, art and/or other leisure time participation for adults and children to enable them to excel, who have a need by reason of disability, financial hardship and or social circumstances by the promotion of waste reduction through re-use, reclamation, recycling, and the redeployment of surplus products

Objects

The relief for the public benefit of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. The provision of facilities, equipment and funding for recreational pursuits intended to bring the quality of life of the beneficiaries to a reasonable standard. The advancement of environmental improvement for the public benefit by the promotion of recycling and sustainable waste management in particular but not exclusively by (a) the promotion of waste reduction, reuse reclamation, recycling, use of recycled products and the use of surplus (b) advancing the education of the public about all aspects of waste generation, waste management and waste recycling.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £1,878.71 in cash at bank at the year end, with total receipts of £175,625.64 and payments of £173,746.93. The trustees confirmed the charity remains operational and able to meet its current bills, with no significant outstanding debts or liabilities threatening its ability to continue.

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 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.

• 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
• 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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 02/10/2026, 244 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 27/02/2025, 27 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/04/2024, 65 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amir Chaudhry
• Gillian Brooke
• Guy Portelli

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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