THE EVE MERTON DREAMS TRUST

Registered charity 1177530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EVESTRUST

The charity raises money to help answer a Dream or grant a wish for Cancer patients of all ages, within our local area. In short, we do something that may make them smile. Fulfilling a dream provides a positive focus empowering both patient and their families with new enthusiasm and strength to deal with ongoing daily struggles of the illness. Our work helps fight the onset of post-diagnosis PTSD.

Objects

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF SERIOUS AND TERMINAL CANCER PATIENTS IN THE DONCASTER AREA BY:• PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE NHS OR DONCASTER BOROUGH COUNCIL;• PROVIDING A DREAM OR HELP TOWARDS IT.

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: Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £17,896 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total unrestricted and restricted funds carrying forward amounting to £117,203. The trustees consider that reserves will hold steady to ensure the charity can continue its activities even in the event of a significant drop in funding. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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.

• 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 16/08/2024, 108 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 10/07/2023, 71 days after the 30/04/2023 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 — Eve Merton Dreams Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National lottery Community Fund — “EvesTrust is proudly supported by the National lottery Community Fund” (source page)

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DIANE MCLENNANchair
• Alan Knowles
• DENISE JANE RIDSDALE
• KAREN MERTON
• Robert Penty
• STEVEN MOSS

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

Operates in: Doncaster

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 CREATE A DREAM FOUNDATION.

• CREATE A DREAM FOUNDATION income £56k
• JASMINE'S LEGACY OF DREAMS income £40k
• A GIFT TO LIFT income £45k
• THE MAYOR OF MERTON'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• FUTURE DREAMS TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• HAWTHORNE MEADOW TRUST income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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