Charity registration number: 1206400
**MERLES WISH TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **Merles Wish Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1—2|
|Independent Examiner's Report|3|
|Statement of Financial Activities|4|
|Statement of Financial Position|5|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|6—8|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|9|
**Merles Wish Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
The purposes of the charity as set out in the governing document are for the public benefit, to relieve the charitable needs of people in Portsmouth, Worcestershire and Shropshire who have a diagnosis of and are receiving treatment for cancer, by providing funding for items, services or facilities calculated to relieve the needs of such persons and which they could not otherwise afford.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
D Arthur L Henning - Chair W Davies J Lilwall H Sparks
## **Charity Number**
1206400
## **Principal Address**
511a London Road Portsmouth PO2 9SA
## **Independent Examiner**
Rogers Tax Shop Limited Rogers Tax Shop Limited 3 Church Street Kidderminster Worcestershire DY10 2AD
Page 1
**Merles Wish Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
L Henning Trustee 31/12/2025
Page 2
## **Merles Wish Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Merles Wish For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Merles Wish (the Trust) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Rogers Tax Shop Limited 31/12/2025 3 Church Street Kidderminster Worcestershire DY10 2AD
Page 3
## **Merles Wish Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**4**
Charitable activities:
**4**
General
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**9**|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
19,746|
|---|---|
||(672)
(2,786)|
||(3,458)|
||16,288|
||16,288
-|
||16,288|
The notes on pages 6 to 8 form part of these financial statements.
Page 4
## **Merles Wish Statement of Financial Position As At 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**8**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**9**
On behalf of the board
L Henning
Trustee
31/12/2025|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
16,858|
|---|---|
||16,858
(570)|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
|||
The notes on pages 6 to 8 form part of these financial statements.
Page 5
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Merles Wish is a charitable incorporated organisation registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 1206400. The principal address is 511a London Road, Portsmouth, PO2 9SA.
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Charities Act 2011.
The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Incoming Resources**
Recognition of income.
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when: - the charity become entitled to the income; - - the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the income; the monetary value can be measured with sufficient accuracy.
- Income with related expenditure. When income has related expenditure (as with fundraising) the income and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.
- Grants and donations. These are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the income.
- Performance related grants. These are only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.
- Investment income. This is included in the SoFA when receivable.
- Volunteer help. The value of any applicable volunteer help received is not included in the accounts but may be referred to in the Trustees’ Annual Report.
## 2.3. **Resources Expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Irrecoverable VAT is included as part of expenditure to which it relates. Expenditure is classified under headings that aggregate all similar costs and which can then be related to costs of raising funds, charitable activities and governance costs. Costs of management and administration where applicable are reallocated to charitable activities. Governance costs are those associated with constitutional and statutory requirements.
## 2.4. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**||
|---|---|
||**2025**|
||**Unrestricted**|
||**funds**|
||**£**|
|Donations and gifts|19,746|
Page 6
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
4. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|||||||**2025**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Activities**|**Support**|||
||||**undertaken**|**costs**|||
||||**directly**|(see note 5|)|**Total**|
||||**£**|**£**||**£**|
|Raising funds|||672||-|672|
|General|||-|2,786||2,786|
||||672|2,786||3,458|
|5.|**Support Costs**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**General**|
|||||||**£**|
|General administration||||||2,786|
|6.|**Independent Examiner's Remuneration**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**£**|
|Independent examination of the financial statements||||||570|
|Other assurance services||||||-|
|Tax advisory services||||||-|
|Other financial services||||||-|
|||||||570|
|7.|**Average Number of Employees**||||||
|Average number of employees during the year was: NIL|||||||
|8.|**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**£**|
|Accruals and deferred income||||||570|
|9.|**Movement in Funds**||||||
|||**As at 1 April**||||**As at 31**|
|||**2024**|**Income**|**Expenditure**||**March 2025**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||||||
|General:|||||||
||General Funds|-|19,746|(3,458)||16,288|
|**Total funds**||-|19,746|(3,458)||16,288|
## 10. **Transactions with Trustees**
None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current year.
Page 7
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
No trustee expenses have been incurred.
## 11. **Related Party Disclosures**
There were no related party transactions during the period.
Page 8
## **Merles Wish Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations from individuals
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Contributions made under the charity objects
Staging fundraising events
**Charitable Activities:**
**General**
Website costs
Independent examiner's fees
Professional fees
Bank charges
**NET INCOME**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
19,746|
|---|---|
||19,746|
||19,746
(171)
(501)|
||(672)
(1,517)
(570)
(695)
(4)|
||(2,786)|
||(3,458)|
||16,288|
Page 9
## **Issuer**
Rogers Tax Shop Limited
**Document generated** Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT
**Document fingerprint** 0bce4d3dfc5fd141bb445992ea9d1520
## **Parties involved with this document**
## **Document processed**
## **Party + Fingerprint**
Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning - Signer (b08be5c09c462767c01d12cdf8b12a21)
## **Audit history log**
## **Date**
## **Action**
Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Envelope generated with fingerprint 70e31689aefcfb4ac601e0924bcb328b (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Document generated with fingerprint 0bce4d3dfc5fd141bb445992ea9d1520. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Document generated with fingerprint 0838278be73adedfdd7ba9919b7bb8fc. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning has been assigned to this envelope. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:52 GMT Envelope generated Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:52 GMT Sent the envelope to Mrs Lisa Henning for signing Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:53 GMT Document emailed to party email Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:41:50 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning viewed the envelope (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:03 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning viewed the envelope (172.186.8.69) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning signed the envelope (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT This envelope has been signed by all parties (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Signed document confirmation emailed to party email (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Signed document confirmation emails have been sent to all parties. Document URL:
https://api.signable.app/shareable/envelope?t=9041b437-fa5c-40e2-ac19-c 0d99cebeee0 (81.78.188.236)
Charity registration number: 1206400
**MERLES WISH TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **Merles Wish Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1—2|
|Independent Examiner's Report|3|
|Statement of Financial Activities|4|
|Statement of Financial Position|5|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|6—8|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|9|
**Merles Wish Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
The purposes of the charity as set out in the governing document are for the public benefit, to relieve the charitable needs of people in Portsmouth, Worcestershire and Shropshire who have a diagnosis of and are receiving treatment for cancer, by providing funding for items, services or facilities calculated to relieve the needs of such persons and which they could not otherwise afford.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
D Arthur L Henning - Chair W Davies J Lilwall H Sparks
## **Charity Number**
1206400
## **Principal Address**
511a London Road Portsmouth PO2 9SA
## **Independent Examiner**
Rogers Tax Shop Limited Rogers Tax Shop Limited 3 Church Street Kidderminster Worcestershire DY10 2AD
Page 1
**Merles Wish Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
L Henning Trustee 31/12/2025
Page 2
## **Merles Wish Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Merles Wish For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Merles Wish (the Trust) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and contents of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Rogers Tax Shop Limited 31/12/2025 3 Church Street Kidderminster Worcestershire DY10 2AD
Page 3
## **Merles Wish Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**4**
Charitable activities:
**4**
General
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**9**|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
19,746|
|---|---|
||(672)
(2,786)|
||(3,458)|
||16,288|
||16,288
-|
||16,288|
The notes on pages 6 to 8 form part of these financial statements.
Page 4
## **Merles Wish Statement of Financial Position As At 31 March 2025**
|**Notes**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**8**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**9**
On behalf of the board
L Henning
Trustee
31/12/2025|**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
16,858|
|---|---|
||16,858
(570)|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
||16,288|
|||
The notes on pages 6 to 8 form part of these financial statements.
Page 5
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Merles Wish is a charitable incorporated organisation registered with the Charity Commission, registered charity number 1206400. The principal address is 511a London Road, Portsmouth, PO2 9SA.
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Charities Act 2011.
The charity is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Incoming Resources**
Recognition of income.
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when: - the charity become entitled to the income; - - the trustees are virtually certain they will receive the income; the monetary value can be measured with sufficient accuracy.
- Income with related expenditure. When income has related expenditure (as with fundraising) the income and related expenditure are reported gross in the SoFA.
- Grants and donations. These are only included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the income.
- Performance related grants. These are only included in the SoFA once the related goods or services have been delivered.
- Investment income. This is included in the SoFA when receivable.
- Volunteer help. The value of any applicable volunteer help received is not included in the accounts but may be referred to in the Trustees’ Annual Report.
## 2.3. **Resources Expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Irrecoverable VAT is included as part of expenditure to which it relates. Expenditure is classified under headings that aggregate all similar costs and which can then be related to costs of raising funds, charitable activities and governance costs. Costs of management and administration where applicable are reallocated to charitable activities. Governance costs are those associated with constitutional and statutory requirements.
## 2.4. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**||
|---|---|
||**2025**|
||**Unrestricted**|
||**funds**|
||**£**|
|Donations and gifts|19,746|
Page 6
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
4. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|||||||**2025**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**Activities**|**Support**|||
||||**undertaken**|**costs**|||
||||**directly**|(see note 5|)|**Total**|
||||**£**|**£**||**£**|
|Raising funds|||672||-|672|
|General|||-|2,786||2,786|
||||672|2,786||3,458|
|5.|**Support Costs**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**General**|
|||||||**£**|
|General administration||||||2,786|
|6.|**Independent Examiner's Remuneration**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**£**|
|Independent examination of the financial statements||||||570|
|Other assurance services||||||-|
|Tax advisory services||||||-|
|Other financial services||||||-|
|||||||570|
|7.|**Average Number of Employees**||||||
|Average number of employees during the year was: NIL|||||||
|8.|**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**||||||
|||||||**2025**|
|||||||**£**|
|Accruals and deferred income||||||570|
|9.|**Movement in Funds**||||||
|||**As at 1 April**||||**As at 31**|
|||**2024**|**Income**|**Expenditure**||**March 2025**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**||**£**|
|**Unrestricted funds**|||||||
|General:|||||||
||General Funds|-|19,746|(3,458)||16,288|
|**Total funds**||-|19,746|(3,458)||16,288|
## 10. **Transactions with Trustees**
None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current year.
Page 7
**Merles Wish Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
No trustee expenses have been incurred.
## 11. **Related Party Disclosures**
There were no related party transactions during the period.
Page 8
## **Merles Wish Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For The Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations from individuals
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Contributions made under the charity objects
Staging fundraising events
**Charitable Activities:**
**General**
Website costs
Independent examiner's fees
Professional fees
Bank charges
**NET INCOME**|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
19,746|
|---|---|
||19,746|
||19,746
(171)
(501)|
||(672)
(1,517)
(570)
(695)
(4)|
||(2,786)|
||(3,458)|
||16,288|
Page 9
## **Issuer**
Rogers Tax Shop Limited
**Document generated** Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT
**Document fingerprint** 0bce4d3dfc5fd141bb445992ea9d1520
## **Parties involved with this document**
## **Document processed**
## **Party + Fingerprint**
Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning - Signer (b08be5c09c462767c01d12cdf8b12a21)
## **Audit history log**
## **Date**
## **Action**
Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Envelope generated with fingerprint 70e31689aefcfb4ac601e0924bcb328b (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Document generated with fingerprint 0bce4d3dfc5fd141bb445992ea9d1520. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Document generated with fingerprint 0838278be73adedfdd7ba9919b7bb8fc. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:40 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning has been assigned to this envelope. (35.176.231.177) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:52 GMT Envelope generated Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:52 GMT Sent the envelope to Mrs Lisa Henning for signing Thu, 1st Jan 2026 9:11:53 GMT Document emailed to party email Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:41:50 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning viewed the envelope (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:03 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning viewed the envelope (172.186.8.69) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Mrs Lisa Henning signed the envelope (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT This envelope has been signed by all parties (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Signed document confirmation emailed to party email (81.78.188.236) Thu, 1st Jan 2026 15:42:27 GMT Signed document confirmation emails have been sent to all parties. Document URL:
https://api.signable.app/shareable/envelope?t=9041b437-fa5c-40e2-ac19-c 0d99cebeee0 (81.78.188.236)