THE AID FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS IN NEED OF NURSING CARE

Registered charity 277849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE AID FUND

To assist Christian Scientists of small means to pay for Christian Science nursing care

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AMONGST PERSONS WHO ARE RELYING FOR HEALING ENTIRELY UPON THE RELIGION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS TAUGHT BY MARY BAKER EDDY IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ANY SUCH PERSON WHO IS IN NEED OF NURSING CARE AND WHO OR WHOSE PARENT OR GUARDIAN (IN THE CASE OF A MINOR) IS UNABLE TO MEET THE FULL COST OF SUCH NURSING CARE WITHOUT UNDUE HARDSHIP AS DETERMINED IN THE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on the General Fund of £409,814 for the year, primarily due to increased grant payments of £501,020 against lower donation income of £92,065. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains very healthy total reserves of £5,401,717, with unrestricted reserves of £4,907,665, which the Trustees confirm are sufficient to continue operating on normal lines.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by FLB Audit LLP. 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 29/05/2024, 90 days after the 29/02/2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~108.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTOINETTE GLYNN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Pamela Rigby
• Sheriff Nigel M P Morrison KC
• VALERIE MALLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wendy Carter · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE.

• CHRISTIANS IN SCIENCE income £71k
• THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRUST IN GREAT BRITAIN income £437k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEE FOR "FOCUS" income £152k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE income £59k
• SCIENCE PROJECTS income £1.2m
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £542k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.