NORTH WEST CHILDREN'S SUPPORT GROUP

Registered charity 1141826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity aims are to provide holidays and social events for disabled and disadvantaged children, and provide support through respite for their parents and carers. The group is totally voluntary run and provides for children :1. who need the opportunity to share social experiences2. who would not otherwise have a holiday3. who's parents need a rest from caring for them through the year

Objects

1.1.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH,AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT,POVERTY OR SOCIAL ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net expenditure of £8,120 for the year, reducing its unrestricted funds from £72,836 to £64,716. The trustees' policy is to hold a full year’s expenditure in reserve, and the current unrestricted reserves of £64,716 are below this target given total expenditure of £50,180. The charity relies entirely on donations, fundraising, and grants as it has no paid staff or regular government funding.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07205667

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Northwest Children's Support Group (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CLARKE, Derek — director, appointed 29/03/2010not on trustee list
• DYSON, Karen — director, appointed 29/03/2010not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Flanaganchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Catherine COFFEY
• Charlotte Murrey
• HELEN WHITTAKER
• Helen Brown
• Michael Nicholson

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST.

• CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST income £8.0m
• NORTH WALES SUPERKIDS income £32k
• UPS AND DOWNS SOUTH WEST income £309k
• WESTFIELD PLAYGROUP AND PARENT & TODDLER GROUP income £75k
• CHILDREN NORTH EAST income £4.1m
• TREWAN SANDS CHILDREN'S TRUST income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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