WEST LANCS PEER SUPPORT

Registered charity 1128722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing support to access Direct Payments for disabled people to employthier own staff to provide personal care.Provide information and advice to manage funds.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES WITH A DISABILITY IN THE AREA OF WEST LANCASHIRE WITHLEARNING DISABILITIES OR LONG TERM DISABLING CONDITIONS, AND OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERSTHROUGH THE PROVISION OF INDEPENDENT SUPPORTED LIVING WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE QUALITYOF LIFE AND INDEPENDENCE OF THOSE PERSONS2.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY THOSE AFFECTED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BYTHE NEEDS SURROUNDING THOSE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES OR LONG TERM DISABLING CONDITIONS,THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND ADVICE REGARDING SUPPORT AND FUNDING AVAILABLE,PARTICULARLY RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT INDEPENDENT LIVING FUND AND AVAILABILITY OFP A/CARER PROVISION, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND INDEPENDENCE OF THOSEPERSONS.

Area of benefit: WEST LANCASHIRE

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £43,812, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of covering six months' unrestricted costs (£42,000). The charity reported a net expenditure of £2,243 for the year, resulting in a decrease in fund balances from £46,055 to £43,812.

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• A NIXON
• karen julie clarke

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Lancashire · Sefton

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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