TRANSPORT FOR SICK CHILDREN LIMITED

Registered charity 1110618 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT TRANSPORT FOR SICK CHILDREN

The transport of sick children to hospital appointments or for therapeutic care

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEED AND SICKNESS OF CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION OF VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT TO AND FROM HOSPITALS, CLINICS AND OUT PATIENTS DEPARTMENTS FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR CARERS WHO RESIDE IN AND AROUND MANCHESTER.

Area of benefit: IN AND AROUND MANCHESTER.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £24,190 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from the previous year's deficit of £13,131. Despite this, the charity holds £216,672 in free unrestricted reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately six months of expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Stensonchair
• Alice Mary Sweeney Carroll
• Angela Chan
• ERIC HOUGHTON
• GAYNOR KERSHAW
• Julie Baum
• PAULINE COPE

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT.

• CROYDON ACCESSIBLE TRANSPORT income £234k
• THE FREE HOSPITAL FUND FOR CHILDREN income £26k
• THE SICK CHILDREN'S TRUST income £2.8m
• OKEHAMPTON DISTRICT COMMUNITY TRANSPORT GROUP income £100k
• TRIP COMMUNITY TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION income £444k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k

Side by side with its peers

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