LAGAN'S FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1154208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Lagan's Foundation provide specialist home and community respite care services to families of children aged 0-19 with complex health conditions. Specialising in cardiac conditions and feeding difficulties.

Objects

(1) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN UNDER FIVE WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH AN ACQUIRED OR CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT AND/OR FEEDING DIFFICULTIES AND TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION, COUNSELLING AND RESPITE CARE;(2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN ALL AREAS RELATING TO NEO-NATAL CARE ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY RELATING TO CONGENITAL DEFECTS OR FEEDING DIFFICULTIES.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £44,139 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total incoming resources of £723,596. Unrestricted reserves stood at £193,111, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £180,000 (three months' operating costs). The filing confirms that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

CQC provider record: Lagan's Foundation — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 12/06/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

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• Lagan's Foundation: Good (04/09/2019) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN BELLchair
• DAVID HOWARTH
• Dr David Wright
• Neil Hutton
• Russell Ashwoth

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GARNANT FAMILY CENTRE.

• GARNANT FAMILY CENTRE income £100k
• CARDIGAN CENTRE income £218k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH CHURCHES ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY WELFARE income £1.1m
• WIGAN AND LEIGH HOSPICE income £7.2m
• LUDGVAN COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTRE LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE DYLAN STRONG FOUNDATION income £71k

Side by side with its peers

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