CHILDREN’S CHARITY MERSEYSIDE CIO

Registered charity 1183756 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MERSEYSIDE CHILDREN'S CHARITY CIO

The objects of the CIO are to relieve the needs of children and young people in Merseyside and in surrounding areas who are in need as a result of ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, by providing or assisting in the provision of specialist items and equipment with a view to improving the beneficiaries conditions of life.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN MERSEYSIDE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS, WHO ARE IN NEED AS A RESULT OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, PROVIDING GRANTS TO OTHER ORGANISATIONS, AND PROVIDING SPECIALIST ITEMS AND EQUIPMENT WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE BENEFICIARIES' CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £110,128.34 at the end of the financial year, following an excess of receipts over payments of £11,309.18. The trustees report that the charity does not operate a reserves policy, and the independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Act and the accounts accord with those records.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children's Charity Merseyside CIO (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Donaldsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• EILEEN SMITH
• KATIE DALTON
• MADELEINE TULLY
• MARGARET ROBERTS

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

Operates in: Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

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