EARLY ESSENTIALS UK

Registered charity 1186657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are an emergency service providing Moses basket starter packs for the most vulnerable pregnant women unable to provide for their babies directly after birth. The women are referred to EE via a 'referring Agency' and we only provide a basket to referring Agency staff if the 'public benefit' criteria are met. Baskets act as baby's safe place to sleep and are filled with Mum and baby essentials.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF A NEW-BORN BABY WHO IS BORN IN THE UK TO PARENT(S) OR CARERS WHO ARE EITHER REFUGEES OR ASYLUM SEEKERS, IN SERIOUS FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, FLEEING DOMESTIC ABUSE, HOMELESS OR SIMILAR DISADVANTAGE THE PROVISION OF A MOSES BASKET STARTER PACK AND HAMPER CONTAINING EARLY ESSENTIALS FOR BOTH CHILD AND PARENT OR CARER

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 £58,857 at the end of the period, held in bank accounts. The trustees report that the charity's finances are in a 'very healthy position' and note that there are no funds materially in deficit. The charity operates with a single part-time employee and relies on volunteer support for its core activities.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GRAHAM PAUL LEECH
• Jane Margaret McConkey
• Jeanette Lea
• LEA FRANCES ANN LEECH
• Laura Green
• Natalie Hands
• SARAH HOPE

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Manchester City · North Yorkshire · Northern Ireland · Peterborough City · Salford City · Stockport · Trafford · Warrington · Wigan

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).