THE ALEXA TRUST

Registered charity 1168705 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Alexa Trust supports parents with babies in neonatal. Currently we are fundraising for our Neonatal Breastfeeding Support Appeal. To date we have donated breast pumps and bottle sterilisers. We are also involved with refurbishing a breastfeeding room and setting up a donor milk depo at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PARENTS WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT HAVING A CHILD IN A NEONATAL UNIT IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND SUCH OTHER SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE AS SHALL BE THOUGHT FIT; ANDTO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF WOMEN AND THEIR BABIES THROUGH EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF PREGNANCY-RELATED ISSUES, PARTICULARLY PRE-ECLAMPSIA, PREMATURE BABIES AND NEONATAL DEATH INCLUDING THE EDUCATION OF THOSE WORKING IN NEONATAL UNITS TO ENABLE THEM TO BETTER CARE FOR SUCH WOMEN AND THEIR BABIES

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: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained financial stability during the year, with total income of £44,674.99 and expenditure of £69,227.55, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Per the trustees' report, current reserves stand at £28,423.96, held in interest-paying bank accounts to provide contingency reserves and fund future projects.

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.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 30/06/2023 (received 09/01/2025, 254 days after the 30/04/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Alexa Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• DENNIS BRIAN BERTIE WHITMOREchair
• ESMARI JAMES
• Grace Helen Bates
• HOWARD JAMES

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

Operates in: City Of London · Essex · Kent · South Africa

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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