MEGAN HURLEY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1179487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide short term help & support to self-employed families unable to attend work due to the sudden and unexpected loss of a child. The charity may also provide support to other good causes that will benefit children.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG SELF EMPLOYED PEOPLE RESIDING IN LIVERPOOL, KNOWSLEY, WIRRAL, HALTON, SEFTON, ST HELENS, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER WHO HAVE SUFFERED THE UNEXPECTED SUDDEN TRAGIC LOSS OF A CHILD BY THE AWARD OF GRANTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO COVER LOSS OF INCOME DUE TO INABILITY TO WORK AS A RESULT OF BEREAVEMENT. 2) TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE MAKING OF GRANTS AND DONATIONS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £168,973, an increase from the previous year's £156,904. The trustees consider this level acceptable to ensure the ongoing success of the charity and note that the charity does not make commitments unless it has sufficient funds to cover total expenditure for at least the next twelve months. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL LEE HURLEYchair
• GAY TARA ANDERSON
• JOANNE HURLEY
• LEANNE OWENS

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.