TARPORLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TRUST

Registered charity 700336 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity works in partnership with others and provides grants to enhance health and social care services for the local community, going above and beyond what the NHS provides.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH;2. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net surplus of £11,773 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by lower grant expenditure and positive investment performance. Freely available reserves were approximately £615,425, which significantly exceeded the trustees' stated minimum reserves level of £150,000. The Charity maintains a professional investment portfolio and has secured a three-year lease renewal with its strategic partner, the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02213003 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tarporley War Memorial Hospital (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CHRISP, Paul — director, appointed 15/01/2025on trustee list
• EDGE, Karen Susan — director, appointed 16/10/2024on trustee list
• PICKEN, Harry William — director, appointed 01/08/2024on trustee list
• HARDING, Helena Mary — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• MURPHY, Lauren — director, appointed 19/10/2023on trustee list
• JOSEPHS, Colin Michael — director, appointed 12/10/2020on trustee list
• STEIN, Caroline Alexandra Helen — director, appointed 03/08/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Tarporley War Memorial Hospital Trust — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 30/07/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Alexandra Stein
• Colin Michael Josephs
• Dr Paul Chrisp · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harry William Picken
• Helena Harding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Edge
• Lauren Murphy

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ROMODHAM TRUST.

• ROMODHAM TRUST income £53k
• THE HUDDERSFIELD WAR MEMORIAL TRUST FUND income £38k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• WARNER PRIORY CHARITABLE TRUST income £78k
• TRINITY HOSPITAL income £93k
• THE E M MACANDREW TRUST income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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