Sam's Place NW Ltd

Registered charity 1121089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILDRENS HOSPICE PLAY AND HOLIDAY CENTRE, SAM'S PLACE, THE CHILDRENS HOSPICE PLAY AND HOLIDAY CENTRE LIMITED

Sam's Place supports children and young adults who have physical, sensory or learning disabilities, life reducing conditions or complex needs.The charity provides opportunities for enterprise/learning to encourage employability skills; recreational and social facilities, and activities, to promote inclusion, peer networks and reduce isolation; information, advice, guidance for the whole family.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING OF TERMINALLY OR SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN OR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE COMPLEX NEEDS (DISABILITIES AND/OR CONDITIONS RELATING TO THEIR ILLNESS) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND AND THE UK GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY WHETHER GEOGRAPHICAL OR OTHERWISE OF SUCH OBJECT):A) BY PROVIDING PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES BOTH MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL, TO TERMINALLY OR SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN, OR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE COMPLEX NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES;B) BY PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND SOCIAL FACILITIES, ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES TO TERMINALLY OR SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN OR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE COMPLEX NEEDS AND THEIR FAMILIES;C) BY CONDUCTING, PROMOTING OR ENCOURAGING RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS;D) BY PROMOTING AND PROVIDING TRAINING TO THOSE PERSONS THAT CARE OF THESE CHILDREN; ANDE) BY PROVIDING SPIRITUAL SUPPORT AND COUNSELLING TO PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 · Disability · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £33,394, resulting in a small surplus of £194. The trustees report that these reserves are sufficient to meet their policy target of holding 3-6 months of free reserves, equating to 5 months of direct charitable costs. The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05983587

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CROWTHER, Michael Thomas — director, appointed 22/03/2024on trustee list
• OLDHAM, Neil — director, appointed 03/04/2023not on trustee list
• RICHES, Michelle — director, appointed 03/04/2023on trustee list
• LANCASTER, Susan Gail — director, appointed 13/06/2022on trustee list
• MARTIN, Joanne — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list
• HUDSON, Simon Douglas William — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Diane — director, appointed 24/05/2022on trustee list
• MARTIN, Joanne — secretary, appointed 03/04/2023

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Crowtherchair
• Carla Ronson
• Diane Henderson
• JOANNE MARTIN
• Michelle Riches
• Neill Oldham · trustee of 3 other charities
• Simon Hudson
• Susan Gail Lancaster

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).