LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF SOUTH TYNESIDE HOSPITALS

Registered charity 232272 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SOUTH SHIELDS HOSPITALS VOLUNTARY AIDS ASSOCIATION

The League's activities are personal service and fund raising. The League is responsible for the Hospital shop which opens each weekday from 10 am until 7.30pm and restricted hours at the weekend and public holidays. The profits from sales along with other moneys raised are used to purchase items for the benefit of the hospital and patients.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITALS WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GENERALLY, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID HOSPITALS

Area of benefit: SOUTH SHIELDS AND DISTRICT

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £13,268 for the year ended 31 December 2024, a significant reversal from the £24,079 surplus in the prior year. Per the balance sheet, net assets decreased from £75,258 to £62,114, driven by administrative expenses of £52,194 which exceeded the gross surplus of £38,926. The filing notes that the company was entitled to exemption from statutory audit under the small companies regime.

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 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Wardalechair
• DOROTHY ROGERS
• Edward Fenwick
• Elizabeth Wells
• JOSIE WIGHAM
• MARGARET WHITTINGTON
• Margaret Shields
• SUSAN GAIL GODDARD
• Terence Prole

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

Operates in: South Tyneside

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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