Sparkle (South Wales)

Sparkle (South Wales) Limited under appeal name "the Sparkle Appeal" provides sporting, leisure and support services for the 1200 children with complex disabilities in the Gwent areas and their families. It provides many enhanced services for children with wide ranging disabilities and supports provision of treatment, consultation, care, leisure and information all under one roof.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Monmouthshire
• Newport City
• Torfaen
• Blaenau Gwent
• Caerphilly

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined. in Practice. Newport (gwent) Monmouthshire Torfaen

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £917,022 and spent £759,668.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 74%, from £526,894 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £917,022 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 83% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

NCC Family First Play Club gave £97,993 in the year to 31 March 2025, 11% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: £141,421 from 5 grants. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2025, the charity named 26 funders who gave £369,576 between them. £9,622 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 24 grants to this charity since 2012, worth at least £1,470,434.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £168, on 2 June 2026.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

8 trustees run the charity.

• Janet Mary KellyChairAppointed 19 September 2019
• Gary HandleyAppointed 18 December 2025
• Joan Yvonne Sheppard
• Martin GerrardAppointed 19 September 2019
• Nicole GarnonAppointed 29 April 2021
• Noel Geoffrey WilliamsAppointed 8 August 2019
• Siobhan DownesAppointed 10 July 2025
• Tracey Ann PeadAppointed 30 March 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1093690

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

4 September 2002

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 JUNE 2001 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 15 JULY 2002 AND 2 SEPTEMBER 2010. as amended on 22 May 2019 as amended on 20 Jul 2021 as amended on 27 May 2021

Company number

04238990This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.sparkleappeal.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Newport

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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