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2022-12-31-accounts

Mitchell’s Miracles Annual Report & Financial Statements

Year ended 31st December 2022

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Mitchell’s Miracles Contents of Financial Statement For The Year Ended 31st December 2022

Contents: 1
Trustees Report
Report of the Trustees 2
Structure, Governance And Management 3
About Us 4
Our Mission
Our Objectives & Activities 5
Our Projects: 6 - 9
Financial Support
Emotional Support
Welfare & Benefit Advice
Highlights For This Year 10 -11
Annual Accounts 12
Financial Review

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Mitchell’s Miracles Report of The Trustees

For The Year Ended 31st December 2022

The Trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st December2022.

The Trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ issued in March 2005.

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

Registered Charity Number : 1152726

Principal Address:

Lambourne House Business Centre 7 Western Road 7th Floor, Suite B Romford Essex RM1 3LD 31 Oct 2023

Trustees:

Mr P Reynold’s (Treasurer) Miss S Barlow (Treasurer) Mr J Harris (Chairman) Mrs D Woodger (secretary)

30 Oct 2023

31 Oct 2023

30 Oct 2023

Independent Examiner:

Plan-a Financials Ltd Chartered Certified Accountants & Business Advisers Suite 17, Essex House, Station Road, Upminster, RM14 2SJ.

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Structure, Governance And Management

Governing Document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated Charity.

Kristel Huth is the founder of the charity, and manages the day-to-day operations of the charity. Decisions are made by unanimous agreement of the Trustees during regular meetings throughout the Year.

Recruitment and appointment of new trustees

New trustees are recruited by invitation only. All appointments would be based on an assessment of the required abilities, and if applicable, specialist skills required by the board. All current Trustees have

received training to brief them on their legal obligations under the Charity Law and Trust Deed. Any new Trustees, as a matter of course, have a commensurate level of induction training.

Risk Management

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed, and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

Objectives And Activities

The objectives of the CIO are:

  1. To promote and protect the physical and mental health of children suffering from

Neuroblastoma a childhood cancer, in the UK through the provision of financial assistance, Support, education and practical advice.

  1. To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to Neuroblastoma In children.

Public Benefit

The trustees have compiled with their duty to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission.

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About us

Since July 2013, our main aim as a charity has been to make a positive difference to families of a child diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, with financial and emotional support. The other main aim is to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms in the hope of saving another child's life.

Every year around 100 children are diagnosed with Neuroblastoma in the UK. With this diagnosis comes emotional and financial pressures for the whole family, on top of caring for their very unwell child, and in some cases more than one child has been diagnosed with the same cancer at the same time.

Our Mission

Since the charity was founded, our main mission has been to relieve some of the stress and heartache that comes with having a child diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. We have 2 intentions in mind, One: to raise as much awareness of childhood cancer, Neuroblastoma. And two: to support families (both emotionally & financially) when their children are having treatment for this condition.

The news that a child is seriously unwell is difficult enough to cope with, without the situation being made worse with money worries. Our financial grants are given directly to families battling the financial effects of Neuroblastoma cancer after a child is diagnosed. The grants provided to each family will assist with travel costs to and from hospital, household utility bills, food cost in hospital, and clothing for the child.

We also offer help to family’s suffering with the emotional side of a child's diagnosis. We feel that this is very beneficial as families are often in so much turmoil over their child’s diagnosis, that they do not think of their own emotional needs. We also offer benefit advice, as again, half of the families we help have no idea of the benefits they could be entitled to.

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Our Objectives and Activities

For the year 2022, Mitchell’s Miracles have been busy trying to raise much needed funds and awareness for Neuroblastoma, within the local community.

Our objectives are:

Mitchell’s Miracles has achieved these objectives by maintaining a strong connection with our local community and subscribers. We have taken advantage of the many social media platforms to announce our appeals and events with some great response. Our Sponsors and partnerships have supported our charity all year round in various ways including financially as well as helping to raise awareness. Without all of the help and generosity from the above mentioned we wouldn’t have been able to support 48 families with regular financial grants and emotional support this year.

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Our Projects:

Financial Support

Over 100 children are diagnosed with Neuroblastoma every year in the UK. And between 50 - 60% of these families are impacted financially by their child’s diagnosis. The extra costs which come with this cancer diagnosis, averages around £600.00 every month, resulting in many parents going into debt. Finding out your child has Neuroblastoma, makes your world stop in its tracks. The only thing that you want to focus on is your child, and what needs to happen in

order for your child to get them well again.

For those families who need to stop working and need financial

help, we are here for them. We have a designated application form on our website for families and for the social workers to complete and email to us, whereby we can act promptly by offering financial grants, which will support them with:

Lots of the families we supported this year sadly lost their jobs either due to their child’s diagnosis, or covid related redundancies and cutbacks.

We proudly supported 48 families this year with either a single grant, or with a regular monthly grant, whilst still continuing to support the previous years families.

We also signposted many families towards other organisations in the hope of further financial support.

Emotional Support

Mitchell’s Miracles offers emotional support to families experiencing the turmoil that can occur when faced with the news that their child has been diagnosed with Neuroblastoma. Taking care of a chronically ill child is one of the most challenging and difficult tasks a parent/carer could ever face. Parents/carers play a huge role in how a child copes. A calm, loving, reassuring, positive parent/carer will help their child cope with the treatment much better. Beyond managing physical challenges and medical essentials, you will have to deal with your child’s emotional needs and the impact that a continued illness can have on the entire family. As a sign of our commitment to assisting families in this regard, our emotional support worker is on hand to offer her expertise with not only emotional support but with bereavement counseling and signposting where needed. The support we offer, helps our families through the toughest times and assures them they are not alone.

Welfare & benefit advice

Along with emotional support, we also provide welfare and benefit advice. This service entails working with the families to ensure they are aware of all the beneficial services they may be entitled to. The forms which have to be completed can be a long process. We are here to go through the claim forms with the parents to double-check they are wording them accurately and receiving the correct amount of benefit. We can assess the needs of each family individually, to their specific needs, and reinforce our support for further assistance, such as Personal Independent Payment, Employment & support allowance or mobility grants. We also provide information about individual grants and often apply on behalf of our families. Our emotional support worker provides her services on a part-time basis, however, she volunteers extra hours to be able to cater for all the families who turn to us for help. Since covid occurred three years ago, Mitchell’s Miracles Charity has assisted more families with signposting than any other support. This may be due to support workers at other charities not providing this service at all or any longer. We feel that this support we offer is sometimes just as helpful as funding.

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Just by showing empathy towards our families and reassuring them they are not alone, and we are here for them, really eases their pain and suffering just a little more.

Hickman Line Bags

Hickman line bags keep the Hickman-lines clean, safe and prevent them from wiggling around. The hickman line are two tubes attached to the child’s chest into the main artery, and its purpose is to take blood, give blood and provide chemotherapy, and many other medications. A hickman line prevents children from having to receive constant injections.

We have an incredible volunteer, who has made a difference to the children we support, and made enough Hickman line bags to support over 100 children this year. She has pledged to continue this support every year for our charity.

Backpack Appeal

A big part of the protocol for children receiving treatment for Neuroblastoma, is to receive immunotherapy. When a child receives immunotherapy, they need to be attached to a medical pump and stay in hospital for up to a week at a time, and over a course of six months. However, by having a small backpack, the immunotherapy bottle can be safely placed inside it allowing the child to go home as opposed to having to spend even more time in hospital.

Great Ormond Hospital made contact with our charity and asked for our help in providing these much needed backpacks. We created an online appeal, and successfully raised enough money to provide them with over 100 backpacks.

Easter appeal 2002

Every year Mitchell’s Miracles prepares for their Easter appeal. Chocolate eggs are a popular gift for children at Easter time, however most of the children we support cannot eat Easter eggs, as the chemotherapy treatment they are receiving may be making them feel very nauseous , or their tummies and mouth could have ulcers. To be handed an egg at Easter can be another added piece of sadness to these children. So, each year we set an Amazon Wishlist filled with Easter fun gifts for our supporters to purchase, which gets delivered straight to our office and then we evenly distribute the gifts between our supported children.

Christmas appeal 2022

Christmas holidays can be a stressful and financially straining time of the year for most, but especially so, for our supported children who may be spending their Christmas Day in a hospital bed isolated from friends and family. Many of the families we have provided financial grants and emotional support to have not only endured the heartache of watching their child go through such intense treatment, but have had the added upset of their child missing out on the one special day of the year, being Christmas day. Due to the ongoing problems resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, we felt it was a risk to enter the cancer wards of GOSH hospital, so we decided to donate 78 Christmas gifts with Amazon gift cards totaling £1,858.60, The Les Ambassadeurs casino donated 60 M&S vouchers, and we received some wonderful gifts from our supporters. We then distributed this between all the children, and the, siblings to an Angel child we supported in 2022. We received some lovely messages of gratitude, expressing how much these gifts had brightened their Christmas day.

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Highlights for the year.

This year was a positive year for Mitchell's Miracles Charity, despite the upheavals experienced globally over the last couple of years due to the pandemic.

We had some great partnerships and support throughout the year, from businesses including, Co-Op,

Tesco and ASDA .

In July, we received the news that a major Law Firm, ‘ Mills & Reeve’ , agreed to into a charity partnership with us for 1 whole year. They donated and raised awareness of our cause throughout the year, and provided us voluntary help with our Christmas gift appeal, by wrapping up all the Christmas gifts for the children we supported in 2022.

In December we were contacted by The Les Ambassadeurs Casino , to confirm that we were amongst one of their five chosen charities to raise donations for with their new fundraising initiative ‘Only Prizes’. This started off with a Christmas voucher for each of the children we supported with our Christmas gift appeal.

Romford Raiders , who are a local ice hockey team, nominated us to sponsor for a year. This included their new ice hockey kit being branded in our charity colours and our logo. They raised lots of awareness within our community and amongst other teams all over the country of Neuroblastoma, and finished the year with a wonderful donation to support our cause. One of our great supporters, Mr Norman James, hosted his 5th annual charity golf day for Mitchell’s Miracles. Cont..

The annual global campaign, ‘ Go Gold for childhood cancer in September ’ is an annual campaign held throughout the month of September. Mitchell’s Miracles supported this campaign by offering our specially designed go gold merchandise, which was a great success.

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In November our 2nd annual fireworks display ‘Mitchell’s Magnificent Fireworks ’ was supported by an amazing 900 attendees. This created great awareness for our cause in the community.

Due to the knock on effects from covid-19, fundraisers were reluctant to fundraise. But, the fundraisers that were successful in fundraising for our cause, included school pupils in our community, who did cake bake sales, and also a sponsored head shave. We were also supported by the biggest decorated Christmas house in Romford Essex, which was supported and match funded by the Gallagher-Re foundation.

The majority of our funding for 2022 were donated from many Trust funds & Grant makers, including:

The wise Music Foundation, The Goodmayes Lodge, Santa Barbara Heights Charitable Trusts, Ian Askew Charitable Trust, John Watson & The LCP Foundation, The Blakemore Foundation, May Hearnshaw Charitable Trust, Michael Marsh Charitable Trust, The Patrick Trust, Arnold Clark Community Fund, Annie Tranmer Charitable Trust, Sainsbury’s ‘Helping everyone eat better fund’, Fowler Smith & Jones Trust, Moto in the community Trust, Bellway Homes, Hospital Saturday Fund, Card factory community fund, Barratt Foundation, Magdalen Hospital Trust, Hedley Foundation, Magic Little Grants, Medicash, M&S Gifting, Beacon Lodge Charitable Trust , Florence Turner Charitable Trust, The Irving Memorial Trust, Marsh Christian Trust, Ladbrokes Coral Trust, Lord Barnby's Foundation, CB and HH Taylor 1984 Trust, People's Postcode, The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, Ford Britain Trust, T.Cribb’s & Sons Funeral Directors.

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF

MITCHELL’S MIRACLES

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 set out on pages nine to thirteen.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this period

(under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act)) and that an independent examination is required.

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of the independent examiner's report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review

of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures

undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view ' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statements below.

Independent examiner's statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF MITCHELL’S MIRACLES

………………………………………………………………………

Kevin Sewell FCCA

Plan-a Financials Ltd

Chartered Certified Accountants

& Business Advisers

Suite 17

Essex House

Station Road

Upminster

Essex

RM14 2SJ 25[th] October 2023

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MITCHELL’S MIRACLES

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

Unrestricted Restricted Fund
fund
Notes £ £
INCOMING RESOURCES
Incoming resources from generated funds
Voluntary income 77,881 -
Activities for generating funds 2 29,531 3,000
Total incoming resources 107,413 3,000
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Costs of generating funds
Fundraising 7,590
Charitable activities
Donations made 22,900 3,000
Gift Appeal 1,674
Governance costs 86,153
Total resources expended 118,318 3000
NET OUTGOING RESOURCES (10,905) 0
TOTAL FUNDS BROUGHT FORWARD 42,831
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 31,926 0
CONTINUING OPERATIONS
All incoming resources and resources expended arise
from continuing activities.

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MITCHELL’S MIRACLES
BALANCE SHEET
AT 31 DECEMBER 2022
Unrestricted fund
Restricted fund
Notes £
£
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible Assets 3 6,417
Total Tangible Assets 6,417
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash at bank 30,952
Cash in Hand 100
NET CURRENT ASSETS 31,052
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Accruals 1,800
HMRC PAYE (Quarterly) 2,800
Credit card 871
Other creditors 72
Amounts falling due within one year 5,543
NET CURRENT ASSETS 25,509
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT 31.926
LIABILITIES
FUNDS
Unrestricted funds 5 31,926
TOTAL FUNDS 31,926
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 25thOctober 2023 and were signed on its behalf
by: 31 Oct 2023
Mr.P Reynold’s -Trustee
Mr.J Harris –Trustee
Miss.S.Barlow - Trustee
Mrs.D.Woodger – Trustee
31 Oct 2023
30 Oct 2023
30 Oct 2023

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MITCHELL’S MIRACLES

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Accounting convention

The financial statements have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

2. ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDS

Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Restricted
Fund Fund
£ £
Fundraising events 10,322 -
Grants Received 12,350 3,000
Other Income 6.859 -
29,531 3,000
3.Tangible Assets Motor
Vehicles
£
Cost
As at 1stJanuary 2022 -
Additions 7,000
As at 31stDecember 2022 7,000
Depreciation
As at 1stJanuary 2022 -
Provided during the period 583
As at 31stDecember 2022 583

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3. Cont.

Net Book Value

As at 1stJanuary 2022
As at 31stDecember 2022
-
6,417

4. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2022.

Trustees' expenses

The trustees expenses of £Nil for travel and administrative costs were reimbursed in the year.

5. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

5. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
Net Movement At At
in Funds 31.12.2022 31.12.2021
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds (10,905) 31,926 42,831
Restricted funds - - -
Total Funds (10.905) 31,926 42,831
Incoming Resources Movement
Resources Expended in funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds 107,413 118,319 (10,906)
Restricted funds 3,000 3000 -
Total Funds 110,413 121,319 (10,906)

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MITCHELL’S MIRACLES

DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

Incoming Resources Notes Unrestricted fund Restricted Fund
£ £
Voluntary Income
Donations & Gift Aid 76,138
Facebook Donations 1,743
Total voluntary income 77,881
Activities for generating funds
Fundraising 17,181
Grants received 12,350 3,000
Total incoming resources 107,413 3,000
Resources Expended
Fundraising
Fundraising Events & Challenges 7,590
Family Support Grants 22,900 3,000
Gift Appeal 1,675
Charitable Activities 32,165 3,000
Support Costs
Wages incl. NIC & pensions 55,125
Consultancy 6,718
Accountancy 980
Insurance 1,657
Travel 620
Telephone 993
Postage & Stationery 2,065
IT Software and Consumables 725
Advertising 4,432
Bank Charges 208
Credit Card Charges 468
Staff Training 155
Subscriptions 994
Office Rent & Rates 9,579
Legal 102
Sundry costs 313
Staff Expenses 436
Depreciation of Motor Vehicles 583
Total Governance 86,153
Total resources expended
Net Income (10,905)

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Plan A Financials Ltd

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