FLYNN'S PORT IN THE STORM LTD

Registered charity 1197853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide mental health services through our mental health crisis cafe. We counsell and provide mental health services to patients throughout Cheshire West and Chester/Cheshire East/Wirral and Merseyside.

Objects

The objects of the charity are, for the public benefit, in Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, the Liverpool City Region, and the Wirral:a) to preserve and protect mental and emotional health and wellbeing of individuals and families by working collaboratively with commissioners, service providers and other agencies to identify and provide innovative mental health solutions and services to relieve the needs of those experiencing mental health difficulties, in particular those affected by abuse, including but not limited to psychological, physical, sexual, emotional, or economic abuse.b) to relieve poverty, financial hardship and social disadvantage among individuals and families experiencing mental health difficulties or crisis, by providing access to essential support, including but not limited to food, clothing, crisis intervention services, and other community-based resources.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Disability · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £5,463 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total charity funds of £19,389. The filing confirms the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, and an accountant's report was compiled on the unaudited accounts.

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.

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
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorothy Cartwright MBEchair
• Deborah McCloud
• Malgorzata Lukaszewicz
• Rita LEWIS
• Susan Kinsella

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Denbighshire · Flintshire · Liverpool City · Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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