FOXTON DISPENSARY

Registered charity 224312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing material assistance to referred applicants residing in the borough of Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde. Applicants need to be on prescribed medication, disabled or infirm.

Objects

TO MAINTAIN A MEDICAL DISPENSARY FOR PROVIDING POOR PEOPLE RESIDING WITHIN THE PARISH OF POULTON-LE-FYLDE AND WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY OF THE BOROUGH OF BLACKPOOL WITH MEDICAL ADVICE AND ATTENDANCE AND MEDICINES. IF AND IN SO FAR AS IN ANY YEAR THE CLEAR INCOME OF THE CHARITY IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES THE SAME MAY BE APPLIED BY THE TRUSTEES IN RELIEVING IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BENEFICIAL AREA WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING OR ASSIST THE RECOVERY OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH CASES, BUT ARE NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO THEM FROM OTHER SOURCES

Area of benefit: POULTON LE FYLDE AND BLACKPOOL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £470,419, which exceeds the stated policy target of maintaining reserves to increase payments to applicants. The charity reports a net incoming resource increase of £11,618 for the year, driven by investment gains, and confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• AUDREY PATRICIA MCLENNANchair
• ALICIA GRANT
• JOANNE McKAY
• Lynn Conifey
• Sedigheh Dunn
• Wendy Holmes

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Lancashire

Income and spending

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