MWL NHS Charity

Registered charity 1053125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ST HELENS AND KNOWSLEY HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FUND, WHISTON AND ST HELENS HOSPITALS CHARITY, WHISTON AND ST HELENS HOSPITALS' CHARITY

To provide equipment, comfort items and therapeutic aids for patients. Provide education and training for both patients and staff.

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Knowsley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £321k, a significant decrease from the previous year's £571k, driven largely by the final disposal of investments. Total expenditure was £645k, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £332k. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £321k, which the trustees consider consistent with their target range of 6 to 12 months' expenditure, noting that liquidity risks are mitigated by the parent NHS Trust.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — MWL NHS Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Lancashire · Sefton · St Helens

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MW (CL) FOUNDATION.

• MW (CL) FOUNDATION income £350k
• Our Bolton NHS Charity income £191k
• Hillingdon Hospitals Charity income £121k
• MW (RH) FOUNDATION income £490k
• MW (HO) FOUNDATION income £131k
• CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £493k

Side by side with its peers

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