HESWALL DISABLED CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY FUND

Registered charity 1177670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HDCHF, HESWALLCAMP

We provide free summer camps, respite care and other activities which support disabled children and young people.These activities are aimed at developing confidence and independence while in a caring and supportive environment.

Objects

THE SUPPORT AND RELIEF OF DISABLED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HOLIDAYS, RESPITE CARE AND DAY ACTIVITIES.

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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £88,513, which are deemed sufficient to cover invoices, bills, and commitments for the next 12 months. Per the trustees' report, there is no uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, and the deficit has dropped to a manageable level.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 30/09/2022 (received 25/09/2023, 57 days after the 30/07/2023 due date); year ending 30/09/2021 (received 21/08/2022, 22 days after the 30/07/2022 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 — Heswall Disabled Children's Holiday Fund (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Powell
• Bernard Christopher Larkin
• CHARLIE BOUGH
• Catherine Green
• GRANT WRAY
• George Bemrose

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN).

• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• WYLYE VALLEY DISABLED CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £24k
• The 3H Foundation income £298k
• HAMELIN TRUST income £3.9m
• KITH AND KIDS income £858k
• HOLIDAYS WITH HELP income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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