THE LORD MAYOR OF BRISTOL'S CHRISTMAS APPEAL FOR CHILDREN

Registered charity 288262 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Lord Mayor of Bristol's Children Appeal

Raising sufficient funds to issue food, clothes and toys vouchers just prior to Christmas to circa 1600 known underpriviliged children living within the Bristol city boundary.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN IN NEED WHO ARE AGED 16 OR UNDER IN SUCH MANNER AS THE COMMITTEE SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: CITY OF BRISTOL

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £164,534 from £147,730 in the prior year, driven by a net income of £16,804 against charitable expenditure of £71,140. The charity maintains its reserves to meet future obligations and holds cash of £165,728 with minimal current liabilities of £1,194.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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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 30/06/2023 (received 20/08/2024, 112 days after the 30/04/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joy Hazel Simmondschair
• Andrew Varney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Stringer

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• THE BRISTOL CHILDREN'S HELP SOCIETY income £295k
• THE LORD MAYOR'S APPEAL income £3.0m
• BRISTOL PARENT CARERS income £245k
• CHRIST CHURCH LANDS CHARITY income £194k
• BRISTOL NOISE income £30k

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