Sparkes Home, Sri Lanka

Analysis

Sparkes Home, Sri Lanka is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in February 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2026, Sparkes Home, Sri Lanka reported income of £31k and spending of £60k, spending 190% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2022 to March 2026, income fell from £42k to £31k (-24%), an average of -6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 115%. Over the whole period it spent 120% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sparkes Home, Sri Lanka sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Blackpool Ice Drome Charities Association (£31k), West Craven Food Bank (£31k) and Schoolgambia (£31k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.