Creative Sparkworks

What the charity does

We deliver visual art, film & media. craft, skills & employment training courses to unemployed young adults, young offenders, economically & socially disadvantaged local residents & mental health service users. Our activities are tailored to meet the needs of our client base: film making, murals, printmaking, ceramics & mosaics.

Charitable objects

1) to advance young people in life, especially but not exclusively through accredited educational creative activities, so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society; 2)to promote the rehabilitation of young offenders and those young people at risk of offending by educating such people in the arts with the aim of assisting such people to re-integrate into the community and to provide them with skills to help them find employment and rehabilitate themselves; 3)to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one of more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed, sexual orientation or gender re-assignment; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards; crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society).

Governing document: Memorandum and articles incorporated 20/04/2011as amended by special resolution registered at companies house on 27/03/2012