THE LEWIS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1166405 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

On a weekly basis we go to Northampton General Hospital, BMI Three Shires- Northampton, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Kettering, Bedford, Luton & Dunstable, Nottingham City Hospital, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Stoke On Trent, Milton Keynes University Hospital Trust to provide free gifts & support to adult cancer patients in hospital.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE SICKNESS OF PEOPLE WITH CANCER WHO RESIDE IN THE East MIDLANDS AND SOUTH MIDLANDS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ITEMS THAT PROVIDE RESPITE, COMFORT AND HAPPINESS AT A TIME WHEN THEY ARE RECEIVING CANCER TREATMENT.

Area of benefit: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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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Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net expenditure of £42,113, resulting in negative unrestricted funds of £27,031. The trustees report that this loss was primarily due to the operation of a Luton outlet store that did not deliver projected income, leading to its early closure. Despite the negative reserves, the trustees confirm the charity is prepared on a going concern basis, citing confirmed funding commitments and cost management measures.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Lewis Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORRAINE LEWISchair
• Kim Evelyn Hughes
• LEE LEWIS

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Derbyshire · Leicester City · Lincolnshire · Luton · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire · Nottinghamshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LINDEN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE LINDEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £92k
• THE CHARTWELL CANCER TRUST income £627k
• LEICESTER HOSPITALS CHARITY income £2.9m
• LINC THE LEUKAEMIA AND INTENSIVE CHEMOTHERAPY FUND income £212k
• LESLIE AND LILIAN MANNING TRUST income £35k
• THE LEYS RESOURCE CENTRE income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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