LUNA'S FUND

Registered charity 1184371 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Offering practical services and emotional support to bereaved parents after baby loss and anxious parents enduring pregnancy after loss in Devon in Cornwall.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PARENT/S SUFFERING FROM THE LOSS OF A BABY THROUGH A STILLBIRTH OR NEONATAL DEATH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO DERRIFORD HOSPITAL, PLYMOUTH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT WHICH IS NOT PROVIDED BY THE NHS 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £144,900, driven by a 51% increase in income to £132,990 and £5,448 in investment interest. The trustees maintain that reserves are high and the charity is a going concern, with a stated long-term policy to build reserves to £200,000 to acquire 'Luna's Lodge'.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Luna’s Fund (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sally Taylorchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helena Jane Campbell
• Jessica Ann Wiggins
• Lloyd Wright
• Stephen Paul Green

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SINCERE SUPPORT.

• SINCERE SUPPORT income £122k
• Luma Foundation income £178k
• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST FAITH'S LEE ON THE SOLENT income £699k
• LHA LONDON LTD income £19.8m
• THE LUNE RIVERS TRUST income £490k

Side by side with its peers

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