TLC APPEAL NORTHUMBERLAND

Registered charity 1193062 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity supplies Teddy Bears to Hospitals, A & E Clinics and associated similar Services across Northumberland and North Tyneside to relieve distress and sufferings of Patients, particularly Children

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERINGS OF PATIENTS, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN, ATTENDING OR ADMITTED TO ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY UNITS AT HOSPITALS, OR THE ASSOCIATED EMERGENCY SERVICES, ACROSS NORTHUMBERLAND AND NORTH TYNESIDE BY PROVIDING SUCH EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, AND AMENITIES WHICH ARE NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

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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Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £6,147 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in general fund reserves from £33,855 to £27,708. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounting records were kept in accordance with the Charities Act and that the accounts accorded with those records. No material matters or concerns were highlighted by the examiner regarding the financial position or compliance.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/01/2024, 80 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — TLC Appeal Northumberland (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Nigel Brucechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dennis Albert Frazer
• Gavin Edward Wales
• Nicholas Martyn Deakin · trustee of 2 other charities
• PHILIPPE ADRIAN PAGES
• Paul Richard Winship · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACHING ARMS.

• ACHING ARMS income £562k
• THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE income £1.2m
• TLC: TALK, LISTEN, CHANGE income £4.7m
• TAMESIDE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU LTD income £467k
• COLCHESTER CHILDREN'S CHARITY APPEAL income £70k
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE income £962k

Side by side with its peers

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