4LOUIS

Registered charity 1172212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support hospitals, hospices and bereaved families.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PARENTS AND FAMILIES WHO HAVE SUFFERED A MISCARRIAGE, STILLBIRTH OR NEONATAL DEATH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF MEMORY BOXES AND SUCH OTHER SUPPORT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £108,751 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,317,604 against expenditure of £1,426,355. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £98,020, which is below the stated policy target of three to six months of running costs, although designated funds of £275,000 were set aside for relocation and general upkeep.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kinnair Associates Limited. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — 4Louis (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bob McGurrell — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 18.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Paul Clarkchair
• Charlotte Louise Mutton
• Dawn Nelson
• Emma Joanne Lyall
• Erika Younger
• Gemma Morgan
• Sharon Abbott

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

Operates in: Cyprus · Germany · Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FULL FACT.

• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• THE LEACH FOURTEENTH TRUST income £119k
• CARE4CALAIS income £1.5m
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• JUSTUS income £47k
• TEAMS4U THE CHARITY income £414k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.