TIGERLILY TRUST
REGISTERED CHARITY 1163387 ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR END 31 AUGUST 2021
TIGERLILY TRUST
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2021 CHARITY INFORMATION
Registered charity number 1163387
Address 2 Holly House Barber Green Ayside Grange-Over-Sands Cumbria LA11 6HU
Contact Details 015395 33872 Chair Patrick Connor Trustees Val Isherwood Tracy Butterworth
Independent Examiner Shweta Pankhadiwala Lancaster District CVS The Cornerstone Sulyard Street Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1PX
TIGERLILY TRUST TRUSTEES' REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2021
The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 31 August 2021
Structure, governance and management
The Charity is governed by its constitution written on 12th December 2012
The trustees served during the year were:
Val Isherwood Patrick Connor Tracy Butterworth
Trustees retire at the end of the annual general meeting and they may be re-elected or re-appointed. The Trustees meet on a bimonthly basis to discuss budgeting, future events and all other business to maintain and take the charity forward. We remain a strong quorum of Trustees dedicated to further the objectives of the charity. We are deeply grateful for their contributions to Tigerlily Trust.
Objectives and activities
The charity’s objects are to preserve and protect the emotional and psychological health of parents who have suffered the loss of their baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, resident within the United Kingdom, with a preference for individuals and Hospitals within the Morecambe Bay NHS Trust area, by the provision of support and information for such persons.
Also, to advance education of the emotional and psychological effects of such a bereavement to professionals and the public through the provision of information.
Activities and service provision
- Provision of Remembrance Boxes and Miscarriage Care Boxes free of charge for Furness General Hospital, Royal Lancaster
Infirmary and Westmorland General Hospital to give to bereaved parents. These contain items to encourage parents to engage with their baby, and enable them to make and collect as many memories as possible in the short time they have with their baby.
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Support Group Meetings
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One to One Befriending Support
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Annual Remembrance Celebration
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Online Support Forums
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Provision of Burial Gowns, Angel Wraps and other items of clothing to offer parents dignity for their baby.
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Bereavement Training, ‘A Bereaved Mother’s Perspective’ and the evolution of Tigerlily Trust for Midwives, Student Midwives, Neonatal, Special Care and Paediatric Staff across the Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust.
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Online website and social media presence providing helpful information and resources for bereaved parents, their families and friends, as well as staff and carers.
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Raising Awareness, Educating the public and Breaking the Silence Surrounding Baby Loss.
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Creative Grief Workshops – therapeutic creative activities bringing together bereaved parents in a supportive environment.
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Tigerlily Rainbow Cubs support group.
Achievements and performance
The Trustees have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charities Commission in exercising their powers of duties. The charity continued with its activities throughout the year to fulfil its aims and objectives as well as continuing
to develop its internal policies and overall governance of the charity.
Over the past 12 months Tigerlily Trust has sustained progress across all it’s core areas; also, the special Covid 19 pandemic response remembrance box we developed was so appreciated by the hospitals we serve that they asked if we could continue providing them. We have managed to achieve this through funding applications and fundraising specifically for this special project, thereby safeguarding the money allocated for our baby loss provision. We continue to receive extremely heartfelt feedback from the recipients, as well as hospital staff.
Thanks to the Trusts strong foundation we have been able to secure our service provision and meet staff costs, so maintaining stability and sustainability even in what has been another very difficult year. We are tremendously grateful to everyone that has enabled the charity to continue its service provision throughout 2020/21 and allowed us to focus our efforts on our main objectives of providing support for the bereaved.
We are also extremely grateful to the Co-op Community Fund for choosing Tigerlily Trust as one of the local charities they supported this year, also the Harold and Alice Bridges Charity for £1,000 and BAE Give As You Earn £1,000 for their support this year that has enabled us to provide good support locally. We sincerely thank them for helping to make all our work possible, without them there would be far less support available locally for bereaved parents.
We are also incredibly grateful for the continued support of donations from the public and fundraising events held by the bereaved families we support who this year have raised a substantial amount of money for the Charity. Every penny is gratefully received and carefully allocated to provide the best possible support to our bereaved parents. We thank every individual and organisation that
has provided us with the funding that enables us to make such a difference in our bereaved parents lives.
Parents and Trustees also showed their support by volunteering to help with things such as the making up of Remembrance Boxes and Miscarriage Care Boxes and processing of all the knitted items we donate to hospitals. This support has helped the Charity enormously. Due to the restrictions in place because of the pandemic we managed these sessions by holding them outside during the good weather. We carried out risk assessments for all activities. Volunteers worked alone outdoors supported by one of our Trustees. We managed to create the stock levels needed to last through to summer 2022 in this time while the weather and restrictions allowed. We also maintained social distancing and quarantine procedures whilst delivering these supplies to our hospitals. We believe we have implemented and upheld very strong health and safety procedures throughout the pandemic, and continue to do so to protect all our service users, volunteers and staff.
Our Support Group Meetings continued via Zoom and kept them to weekly sessions to help support our bereaved parents through the heightened anxiety and emotional turmoil created by the pandemic.
We have continued our social media presence with Facebook and Instagram. Instagram has proved to be a popular alternative to Facebook with the bereaved parents we support.
As we reflect on the past years achievements and look at the feedback from our service users, one thing is clear, that the ethos, values, compassion, understanding and kindness that underpin all of our endeavours create an atmosphere where we can help bring comfort and healing to many people’s lives. We hope to continue to build on our support provision, and we are incredibly grateful to have been given the fundraising support needed to get us through this extremely difficult time. We are endeavouring to do all we can to ensure we can continue to provide our valued and vital support.
Statement of Trustee Responsibilities
Charity law requires trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of its financial activities for that period. In preparing those financial statements the Trustees are required to:
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Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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Make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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State whether the policies adopted are in accordance with Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) Accounting by Charities and with applicable accounting standards, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Acts. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities.
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees
Patrick Connor 31- Aug-21
Patrick Connor
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Tracy Butterworth 31-Aug-21
Tracy Butterworth
Tigerlily Trust ACCOUNTS and FINANCIAL STATEMENT For the Period
1[st] September 2020 to 31[st] August 2021
Tigerlily Trust INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 1st September 2020 to 31st August 2021
| Income Expenditure Operating Surplus /Deficit Interest receivable Surplus / Deficit on activities |
2020-21 2019-20 18,265 35,025 31,466 34,153 13,201 - 873 - - |
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| 13,201 - 873 |
Tigerlily Trust BALANCE SHEET
1st September 2020 to 31st August 2021
| Current Assets Debtors Cash at bank Cash in hand Creditors:amounts falling due within one year Net current assets Total assets less current liabilities Net assets Funds: Unrestricted funds Restricted income funds Reserves Total Funds |
2020-21 2019-20 - - 6,990 20,191 0 - 6,990 20,191 - - 6,990 20,191 - - 6,990 20,191 5,213 14,166 540 6,026 1,237 - 6,990 20,191 |
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Signed on behalf of The Tigerlily Trust
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Tigerlily Trust
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
1st September 2020 to 31st August 2021
| INCOME Grants Donations Sales Virgin Money Giving EXPENDITURE Materials Staff Costs Office Expenses Research Accountancy fees Telephone & Internet Fundraising Cost Travel & Motor Vehicle Cost Repair & Renewals(Equipment) Training Use of Home Room Hire/Rent Insurance Bank Charges Equipment Total Administrative expenses Interest received Surplus / Deficit on activities |
2020-21 2019-20 1,000 18,126 12,109 16,806 - 93 5,155 18,265 35,025 2,388 10,408 21,000 18,000 900 1,339 684 91 60 60 - 144 42 359 2,511 1,804 649 306 37 - 804 - 1,088 1,077 - 559 14 5 1,290 31,466 34,153 - - 13,201 - 873 |
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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Tigerlily Trust
I report on the accounts for the year 1st September 2020 - 31st August 2021
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The Board of Directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The Board of Directors consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention
Basis of 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 statement below.
Independent examiner's statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
(1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements have not been met
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(2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Shweta Pankhadiwala
c/o Lancaster District CVS The Cornerstone, Sulyard Street, Lancaster, LA1 1PX
23rd June 2022