## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 1 April 2023 **To** 31 March 2024 **Charity name:** Mersey Care NHS FT Charitable Fund **Charity registration number:** 1191576 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Charitable purposes relating to the**
**general or specific purposes, including**
**population health, mental health and**
**suicide prevention, of Mersey Care NHS**
**Foundation Trust for the benefit of users**
**of services managed by Mersey Care NHS**
**Foundation Trust and staff involved in the**
**provision of those services, for all or any**
**charitable purpose or purposes relating to**
**the National Health Service**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|
**To provide amenities to service users**
**and carers of Mersey Care NHS**
**Foundation Trust**

**To provide amenities to staff of Mersey**
**Care NHS Foundation Trust**

**To provide amenities to volunteers of**
**Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust**

**To provide support to the promotion of**
**suicide prevention**

**General Charitable Purposes**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Corporate Trustee has had regard to**
**the guidance produced by the Charity**
**Commission on Public Benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**| Other **N/A** ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During 2023/24, the Charity commenced**
**fundraising activities hosting several**
**events alongside launching an online**
**giving platform. A dedicated Charity**
**website was developed which seeks to**
**grow the profile of the Charity both**
**internally within the Trust and to the wider**
**public. During the year policies and**
**procedures were also developed around**
**governance.**
**The Charity successfully applied to NHS**
**Charities Together to access Stage 3**
**Covid-19 Recovery Funding. A grant of**
**£252,999 was awarded to the Charity to be**
**paid in tranches to fund several projects**
**over a two-year period commencing in**
**2023/24.**
**A Charity Fundraising Strategy has been**
**produced for 2023/24 and an Operational**
**Plan developed to support the delivery of**
**the Charity’s objectives.**
**Approval was received from the Charity**
**Commission to transfer the North West**
**Boroughs Healthcare NHS FT Charitable**
**Fund to the Mersey Care Charity. Funds**
**were subsequently transferred and the**
**former North West Boroughs Charity was**
**removed from the Charity Commission**
**register in June 2023.**
**Total receipts were £235,526, as follows:**

**NHS Charities Together Stage 3 Covid-**
**19 Recovery Grants - £173,723**

**Liverpool City Council Eurovision**
**Grant - £2,000**

**Donations and on-line giving - £19,307**

**Dividends & Interest - £3,195**

**Transfer from NWB Charity - £37,301**
**Total payments were £69,583 as follows:**

**NHS Charities Together Grants**
**utilisation - £46,557**

**Other Charitable Activities - £545**

**Fundraising - £21,375**

**Governance- £1,106**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**The investment policy requires that all**
**monies, apart from working capital, be**
**invested in securities to maximise the**
**overall return consistent with an**
**acceptable level of risk. The performance**
**of the investments is continually**
**monitored and reported on an annual**
**basis in relationship to other common**
**investment funds.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the reporting period the**
**Charity held total funds of £328,212 of**
**which £103,548 was classed as**
**unrestricted and £224,664 was restricted**
**as per the wishes of the donors or as per**
**grant awards.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**In accordance with Charity Commission**
**guidance, the Corporate Trustee (“the**
**Trustee”) has developed a reserves policy**
**to establish the level of reserves that is**
**appropriate to the Charity and ensure**
**compliance with the Trustee’s legal duty**
**to apply charity funds within a reasonable**
**time of receiving them.**
**It is the Trustee’s determination to**
**demonstrate prudent stewardship of the**
**Charity and to ensure that the level of**
**reserves is appropriate to the Charity’s**
**circumstances.**
**From experience the Trustee would**
**expect to spend at the same level as**
**income is received taking one year with**
**another. However, it is intended to**
**establish and maintain reserves (namely**
**the “Unrestricted funds”) to ensure**
**current or anticipated expenses are met**
**from the funds should there be any major**
**adverse fluctuations in income received.**
**Reserves will be identified to a maximum**
**level equivalent to approximately 6**| **months expenditure. Should the amount rise beyond this level action will be taken to expend funds in accordance with the charity’s objects. Reserves will not be permitted to fall below a level equivalent to three months expenditure. However, in the unlikely event of this happening the Trustee may withhold from distribution such amounts of income and credit them to the reserve funds. Unrealised gains on investments will not be included in income to be distributed to unrestricted funds. The level of reserves will be monitored on a monthly basis to ensure compliance with the above limits. The Trustee will formally review this policy every two years.** |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The £103,548 unrestricted funds held as at**
**31 March 2024 are held in reserves.**| |---|---|---| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The Charity’s principal sources of income**
**are grants awarded by NHS Charities**
**Together, grants from other bodies,**
**fundraising events and activities and**
**general donations.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The Charity’s main source of income to**
**date has been NHS Charities Together**
**Covid-19 grants, however as these come**
**to an end, there is currently no other**
**regular sources of income at present.**
**Grant applications from other sources**
**form a significant part of the Charity’s**
**Fundraising Strategy going forward,**
**however these are not guaranteed. The**| **Charity will continue to be dependent upon the goodwill of service users and members of the public for donations and engagement with fundraising activities.** Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**NHS Trust Body**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Mersey Care NHS FT Board of Directors**
**acting as Corporate Trustee**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Mersey Care NHS FT’s Board of Directors,**
**acting as Corporate Trustee, has formally**
**constituted a Charitable Funds Committee**
**consisting of Executive and Non-**
**Executive Directors. The Charitable Funds**
**Committee has delegated powers to**
**oversee the management and operation of**
**charitable funds.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**In 2023/24, the funds held by the North**
**West Boroughs Healthcare NHS FT**
**Charity were transferred to the Mersey**
**Care NHS FT Charity. These included**
**funds administered on behalf of**
**Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS**
**Foundation Trust and these continue to**
**be managed under an SLA agreement.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Mersey Cares, Zero Suicide Alliance, Life Rooms| |Registered charity number|1191576| |Charity’s principal address|Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Trust Headquarters
V7 Building
Kings Business Park
Prescot
Merseyside
L34 1PJ| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1|**Trustee name**
Mersey Care NHS
Foundation Trust (as
Corporate Trustee)|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved |**Director name**||| |---|---|---| |Rosie Cooper|Non-Executive Chair|| |Anya Ahmed|Non-Executive Director|To 21 July 2023| |Murray Freeman|Non-Executive Director|To 31 August 2023| |Gerry O’Keeffe|Non-Executive Director|| |Nick Williams|Non-Executive Director|| |Scott Etherington|Non-Executive Director|| |Marie Boles|Non-Executive Director|From 20 June 2023| |Ian Buchan|Non-Executive Director|From 11 December 2023| |Nicola Haywood-Cleverly|Non-Executive Director|From 11 December 2023| |Maureen Whilby|Non-Executive Director|From 11 December 2023| |Liz Roden|Non-Executive Director|From 9 May 2024| |Debora McLaughlin|Non-Executive Director|From 13 September 2024| |Joe Rafferty|Chief Executive Officer|| |Trish Bennett|Chief Executive (Designate)|| |Elaine Darbyshire|Chief Communication,
Inclusion and Estates
Officer|To 30 September 2024| |Louise Edwards|Chief Strategy,
Commissioning and
Partnerships Officer|To 28 June 2024| |Amanda Oates|Chief People and Culture
Officer|| |Rob Collins|Chief Finance Officer|| |Noir Thomas|Chief Medical Officer|| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |N/A||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |**Investment**
**Fund**
**Manager**|BlackRock Fund
Managers
Limited|PO Box 545
Darlington
DL1 9TQ| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Rob Collins **Position (eg Secretary,** Chief Finance Officer **Chair, etc)** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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23/01/2025 ||**Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Charity**
|**Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Charity**
|**Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Charity**
|**Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Charity**
|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
4/1/2023|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**
VoluntaryReceipts
**12,167**
Grants Received
**2,000**
Dividends & Interest Received
**3,195**
Transfer from NWB Charity
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**17,362**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 17,362**
**A3 Payments**
Cost of Charitable Activities
RaisingFunds
**21,375**
Governance Costs
**1,107**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 22,481**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 22,481**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 5,119**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**108,667**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 103,548**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**7,140**
**173,723**
**-**
**37,301**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**218,164**|**-**|**19,307**
**175,723**
**3,195**
**37,301**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**235,526**|**31,896**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**31,896**| ||||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||||| |||**218,164**|**-**|**235,526**|**31,896**| ||||||| |||**47,102**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,102**|**-**|**47,102**
**21,375**
**1,107**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69,583**|**25,660**| ||||**-**||**1,900**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**27,560**| ||||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|| ||||**-**||| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||||| |||**47,102**|**-**|**69,583**|**27,560**| ||||||| |||**171,062**
**-**
**53,602**
**224,664**|**-**|**165,943**
**-**
**162,269**
**328,212**|**4,336**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**157,933**| ||||**-**||**162,269**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Mersey Care Bank Account
NWB Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
BLK Charities UK Equity Fund A Inc
BLK Charities UK Bond Fund A Inc
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Owed to Mersey Care NHS Foundation
Trust in respect of goods & services
purchased for the Charity via the Trust
Owed to Mersey Care NHS Foundation
Trust in respect of goods & services
purchased for the Charity via the Trust|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**103,523**
**224,664**
**25**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**103,548**
**224,664**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Unresticted
**52,239**
Restricted
**70,551**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Rob Collins
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Restricted/
Unrestricted
Restricted/
Unrestricted
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**58,696**| ||||**7,390**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Rob Collins|1/23/2025| ||||| - (1) accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by Section 130 of the Act; or - (2) the accounts do not accord with those records.