Merseyside Against Blood Cancers

Registered charity 1157459 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BLOOM APPEAL

The trustees continue to be guided by the objectives set out in the CIO Association document. The trustees are mindful of their need to be apprised of current developments in the treatment of leukaemia and related blood cancers and are therefore in continual dialogue with medical staff at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

Objects

1) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS OF THOSE PERSONS WITH BLOOD CANCER, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.2) TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO BLOOD CANCER, ITS CAUSES, TREATMENT AND CURE AND PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM BLOOD CANCERS.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, with net assets decreasing from £140,513 to £130,141. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £58,624, which the trustees consider prudent given anticipated future requirements. The filing notes no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Merseyside Against Blood Cancers (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABILA POINTING MBE
• Dr Emily Hill
• Dr Priya Bhatnagar
• Elaine Isobel kinsella
• Frank Donovan
• Gail Ann Aubrey
• Jessica Jones
• Lucy Helen Moss
• Michaela Riches

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

Operates in: Liverpool City · Wirral

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO.

• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• BLACKPOOL TEACHING HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £941k
• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £290k
• Mildmay Hospital income £3.8m
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £335k
• LEUKAEMIA & MYELOMA RESEARCH UK LTD income £554k

Side by side with its peers

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