TOUCH OF SPARKLE

Registered charity 1210909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Touch of Sparkle primarily provides care packs to adult and teenage cancer patients at all stages of treatment - surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The care packs contain a range of practical items, distractions, snacks and treats. Touch of Sparkle also makes regular donations of reward toys to children undergoing a test or procedure in hospital

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF ADULT CANCER PATIENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH A CANCER CARE PACK PROVIDING A RANGE OF PRACTICAL ITEMS, DISTRACTIONS AND TREATS WHICH CAN BE BENEFICIAL IN EASING SOME OF THE SIDE EFFECTS OF CANCER TREATMENT AND TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH OTHER MEDICAL CONDITIONS BY PROVIDING GIFTS OF TOYSNOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 ANDSECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £17,028 for the period, with total income of £38,628 against total expenditure of £21,600. Per the trustees' report, net assets held at the end of the period were £22,833, comprising both restricted and unrestricted funds. The trustees noted that no formal reserves policy had yet been adopted but considered it prudent to retain sufficient funds to support ongoing activities.

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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Touch of Sparkle (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Elisabeth Anne Silver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Robert Steed B.A. hons
• Melanie Suzanne Hersey M.A, B.A.
• Sarah Jane Swire M.A. · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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