MILLY'S SMILES

Registered charity 1198503 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide a Milly Bag to all new families whose child has been diagnosed with cancer and admitted into one of the 8 Principal Treatment Centres we currently support. These centres are Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, Newcastle and Cardiff. The Milly Bag contains essential items that will help and support families during the first few weeks on the ward and beyond.

Objects

To relieve the needs of children suffering from an oncology related illness, by providing or assisting with the provision of a Milly Bag and other such items as the Trustees, from time to time see fit.To relieve the distress of families in the UK who have suffered the bereavement of a child by the provision of charitable means that the trustees think fit including but not exclusively by providing monthly support groups involving creative and holistic therapies

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity sustained strong financial stability with a surplus of £97,415 for the year ended March 2026. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of twelve months' expenditure to protect against income fluctuations and insolvency risks. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention that would cause concern regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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 — Milly's Smiles (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEMMA MARY DYSONchair
• Carrie Ann Wright
• David Sears
• KATHRYN THOMAS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MILLIE WRIGHT CHILDREN'S CHARITY.

• THE MILLIE WRIGHT CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £124k
• THE CHILDREN'S CANCER AND LEUKAEMIA GROUP income £5.5m
• TEDDY20 SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH CANCER LIMITED income £125k
• SPREAD A SMILE income £2.2m
• BABONS CANCER SUPPORT income £107k
• BEMOREFAB CHILDREN'S CANCER CHARITY income £211k

Side by side with its peers

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