MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY

Registered charity 1191576 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF MERSEY CARE, MERSEY CARE NHS CHARITY, Mersey Cares, THE LIFE ROOMS, ZERO SUICIDE ALLIANCE (ZSA)

Funds will be raised and utilised for the benefit of users of services managed by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and staff involved in the provision of those services.

Objects

THE TRUSTEE SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND AT ITS DISCRETION, SO FAR AS MAY BE PERMISSIBLE, THE CAPITAL, FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF USERS OF SERVICES MANAGED BY MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST AND STAFF INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF THOSE SERVICES, FOR ALL OR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE INCLUDING IMPROVING THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION TO WHOM MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST PROVIDES SERVICES AND IMPROVING SUPPORT FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS ÔTHE OBJECTSÖ).

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £19,179, which is below the stated policy minimum of three months' expenditure. The charity notes that its main income source, NHS Charities Together grants, has concluded, creating a dependency on future grant applications and public donations which are not guaranteed.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Mersey Care NHS Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m
• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £1.1m
• THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £1.1m
• MID CHESHIRE HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FUND income £578k
• Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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