## **WYNTERS WISH BABY LOSS & BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT CHARITY** 

_Trustee Annual Report & Accounts for period: 01/04/2024 to 31/03/2025_ 

## **Charity Details:** 

**Name:** Wynter's Wish (Babyloss & Bereavement Support Charity) Registration Number: 1187998 

## **Address:** 

14 Pear Tree Avenue 

Barkby 

Leicestershire 

LE7 3AS 

## **Trustees:** 

Sarah Andrews (Chair) Christina Tissington (Treasurer) 

Gary Andrews (Correspondence Secretary) 

Mark Tissington (Administration Secretary) 

## **Selection of Trustees:** 

Trustees are elected at the Annual General Meeting of the charity. They are selected to utilise available professional or vocational skills where possible. All Trustees are inducted by familiarising them with the constitution, policies, aims and objectives, and other relevant documents relating to the charity's governance. 

## **Report Format** 

The charity’s income is under £500,000 (and it doesn’t have assets worth more than £3.26million), a simple report is therefore adequate. 



## **Targets and Objectives for 2024-2025** 

The general objects are set out in the Charity's Constitution 

The objectives for the period were to raise funds to support the charity’s aims and objects, secure funding for the purchase of a cold cot, and promote and provide the _Wynter’s Wish_ book as a resource to support bereaved families. 

## **Performance Against Targets and Objectives** 

## **Achievements** 

A significant achievement for the charity during this period was the donation of an Abi cooling cot to Southmead Hospital, Bristol, facilitated through the charity Abigail’s Footsteps (registered charity number 1149005). Cooling cots are an essential resource for bereaved families, as they allow parents precious time to stay with their baby, create memories, and say goodbye at their own pace. This donation ensures that families experiencing the devastating loss of a baby are supported with dignity, compassion, and choice during an unimaginably difficult time. 

Continued to distribute copies of the Wynter’s Wish children’s story to bereaved families affected by baby, child, or pregnancy loss. 

## **Maternity Safety Advocacy:** 

During this reporting period, regular activities and fundraising efforts were limited and continue to be affected. This is due to the ongoing involvement of the trustees in advocating for maternity safety improvements, both as trustees and as harmed and bereaved parents. Several trustees are actively contributing to the Independent Maternity Review chaired by senior midwife Donna Ockenden. 

Despite these challenges, and the impact of personal mental and physical health issues on some trustees, the charity was still able to meet all of its performance objectives in line with the constitution. The trustees have continued to advocate for maternity safety by engaging with the Secretary of State for Health and Members of Parliament, including participation in the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on maternity and baby loss. 

## **Financial Review / Summary** 

The charity’s reserves were maintained above the minimum level of £300, in accordance with the Banking Reserve Policy. 

For the period under review: 

- Total income (rounded to the nearest pound): £716 

- Total expenditure (rounded to the nearest pound): £2,929 



||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**WYNTER’S WISH (BABYLOSS & BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT)**|||||**1187998**||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
||||01/04/2024||||31/03/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Start balance|**2,362**||**-**||**-**||**2,362**||**-**|
|Total  Income|**716**||**-**||**-**||**716**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**3,078**||**-**||**-**||**3,078**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total_**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
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|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**3,078**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**3,078**||**- 0**|
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Insurance (INS)|**119**||**-**||**-**||**119**||**-**|
|Bank Charges / fee’s / other|**10**||**-**||**-**||**10**||**-**|
|Abigails Footsteps Cold Cot Donation|**2,800**||**-**||**-**||**2,800**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**2,929**||**-**||**-**||**2,929**||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**2,929**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**2,929**||**- 0**|
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|<br>**149**||**-**||**-**||**149**||**-**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**149**||**-**||**-**||**149**||**-**|
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Closing balance 2024/2025||||**149**||**-**||**-**|
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
|Date of approval - 30/01/2026|G.Andrews||||GARY ANDREWS||||30/01/2026|
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