THE ERIC F SPARKES CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 233085 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General support for charities throughout England and Wales, particularly in Birmingham, Devon, South Wales and London.

Objects

TO OR FOR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust's unrestricted reserves stood at £1,448,584, an increase from the previous year's £1,352,658, driven by a net investment gain of £99,488. Although charitable grants made (£27,310) exceeded net investment income after costs, the Trustees consider the resulting deficit acceptable as it is covered by capital growth. The Trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the Trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/06/2024, 232 days after the 31/10/2023 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

• JOHN MICHAEL DAVIES
• JOSEPHINE CELIA DAVIES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE F A F CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE F A F CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £188k
• THE ERIC WRIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST income £314.8m
• THE SCS TRUST income £594k
• THE ELIZABETH CREAK CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.4m
• THE ERIC STANTON- NORTHAMPTON TRUST income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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