# POEMS IN THE WAITING ROOM LIMITED

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1099033
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Aug. 18, 2003
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1099033


## Contact

- **Address:** The Barn, Court Drive, Apperley, GLOUCESTER
- **Postcode:** GL19 4DH
- **Phone:** 07977662814
- **Email:** helen.lee@poemsinthewaitingroom.org
- **Website:** www.poemsinthewaitingroom.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE COMPOSITION AND THE APPRECIATION OF POETRY, PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION IN HEALTH SERVICE WAITING AREAS OF THE SERIES OF POETRY PAMPHLETS AND POSTERS KNOWN AS 'POEMS IN THE WAITING ROOM'.

**Activities:** Poems in the Waiting Room is an arts in health and wellbeing charity, providing online poetry for patients to read while waiting to see their NHS doctor. There is no charge to patient or to the NHS. Poems are selected and professionally evaluated for suitability for reading in a healthcare context.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £522 | £1558 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £615 | £121 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £885 | £0 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £1675 | £126 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £7286 | £8202 | — | — |



## Trustees

- EDMUND SIMON LEE
- ELIZABETH MARY ANNE PATIENCE
- ISOBEL ANNETTE PLATINGS