THE MERSEYSIDE HOLIDAY SERVICE

Registered charity 225834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Merseyside Holiday Service aims to help people on Merseyside who are in need of aholiday break but who are unable to afford the full cost themselves. Those that we assist are allon very low incomes and have families with young children who have been living and suffering under some exceptional difficulty or stress and who would benefit from a short break away from their homeenvironment.

Objects

TO PROVIDE HOLIDAY FOR PROFESSIONAL AND WORKING WOME WHO ARE IN NEED OF A HOLIDAY BUT WHO ARE UNABLE TO AFFORD THE FULL EXPENSE THEMSELVES AND THOSE ENGAGED IN HOUSEHOLD DUTIES WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR HELP FROM ANY OTHER HOLIDAY ASSOCIATION AND OLD AGE PENSIONERS.

Area of benefit: MERSEYSIDE

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 · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£11k
Latest spending
£12k
Registered
1969

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Policies the charity declares

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2023

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2024 (received 31/07/2025, 1 day after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 12/01/2024, 166 days after the 30/07/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£11k£12k
30/09/2024£12k£10k
30/09/2023£15k£21k
30/09/2022£22k£20k
30/09/2021£32k£13k

Common questions

Who funds THE MERSEYSIDE HOLIDAY SERVICE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE MERSEYSIDE HOLIDAY SERVICE as a grant recipient include THE AMELIA CHADWICK TRUST, MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE DAVID AND RUTH BEHREND FUND.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.