SKY FULL OF STORIES

Registered charity 1191068 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SFOS

Sky Full Of Stories utilises the performance arts, storytelling and music to help combat social isolation in marginalised people.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, AGE, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC POSITION OR SOME OTHER DISADVANTAGE BY: - THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH MUSIC AND MULTI-SENSORY STORYTELLING AND PRACTITIONER TRAINING WORKSHOPS; - THE ACTIVE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY DETERRING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, ASSISTING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND SUPPORTING THEM TO INTEGRATE WITH SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£33k
Latest spending
£35k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,477 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £2,661 to £1,184. The trustees confirmed that the current level of free reserves is sufficient to safeguard operations against unexpected delays in funding or unforeseen expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income)
“Charitable activities 30,340” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: unclear (held: £471)
“The Trustees are working towards improving the level of free reserves and having reviewed the risks to which the charity might be subject to, have decided that the current level of reserves are sufficient.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£33k£35k
05/04/2024£35k£33k
05/04/2023£29k£29k
05/04/2022£21k£21k
05/04/2021£4k£4k

Common questions

Is SKY FULL OF STORIES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,477 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £2,661 to £1,184. The trustees confirmed that the current level of free reserves is sufficient to safeguard operations against unexpected delays in funding or unforeseen expenditure. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery30/06/2023£2kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund29/09/2021£1kSky Full Of Stories Community Sessions