## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2024 Period start date To 31[st] March 2025 Period end date** **Charity name: Alder Hey Children’s Kidney Fund** ## **Charity registration number: 256061** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes
of the charity as set out in
its governing document|Para 1.17|**Objective to provide financial support to**
**improve the lives of children affected by**
**kidney disease and disorders.**
**To provide medical equipment in**
**connection with the treatment of kidney**
**disease.**
**To support any research programme**
**carried out with a view to the furtherance**
**of medical knowledge directly related to**
**diagnosis and treatment of children’s**
**kidney disease and abnormalities of the**
**renal tract.**| |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|**Our main activities are as follows:-**
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**To provide welfare assistance for**
**patients who are affected by**
**disease/abnormalities of the renal**
**tract.**
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**To support children and their**
**families to attend British**
**Transplant Games. Invaluable**
**experience to meet children and**
**families who have received**
**kidney transplants.**
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**Continue to support research in**
**conjunction with University of**
**Liverpool and Alder Hey**
**Children’s NHS Foundation Trust**
**to ultimately benefit children with**
**renal disease**
**Welfare assistance and contribution**
**towards British Transplant Games is**
**available to all children and families who**
**are affected by renal disease who attend**
**Alder Hey or its satellite clinics.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have|Para 1.18|**In planning our activities for the year we**
**kept in mind the Charity Commission’s **| **guidance on public benefit at our Trustee meetings.** had regard to the guidance issued 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|**The policy is to issue grants and not**
**undertake any means testing. All**
**families receive the same payment**
**based on the type of treatment and**
**period as in patient as follows**
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**£350 to family of child receiving**
**kidney transplant at Manchester**
**Children’s Hospital**
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**£75 per week payment for family**
**of child receiving in-patient**
**treatment for renal disease at**
**Alder Hey**
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**£100 per week payment for family**
**of child receiving in-patient**
**treatment due to complications**
**following transplant at**
**Manchester**
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**£20 per week payment towards**
**travel costs when family is**
**receiving peritoneal dialysis**
**training**
**Any other requests assessed on its**
**merits**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**No policy with any charity spend agreed**
**at Trustee meeting.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**A great contribution is made by**
**volunteer trustees who work well**
**together to consider various financial**
**request. We are grateful to individuals**
**who hold fund raising activities on a**
**volunteer basis.**| |Other||| ## **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|**In 2018 we set an aspirational target**
**during our 50th anniversary year to raise**
**funds for home haemo-dialysis project,**
**with specialist nurse appointed in 2020.**
**Following completion of the project, the**
**service will now be offered and funded**
**by Alder Hey for the foreseeable future.**
**Welfare assistance to families**
**undergoing treatment is invaluable in**
**providing support when faced with**
**many difficulties.**
**Research projects are developing**
**practices that can be introduced into**
**clinic and improve outcomes for**
**children. The information is shared**
**throughout the specialty through**
**medical papers and presentations.**
**Projects have worked in conjunction**
**with other specialties at Alder Hey to**
**assess the impact of treatment, such as**
**chemotherapy, and other illnesses,**
**such as lupus, on children’s kidneys.**
**Support provided to enable a team to**
**enter British Transplant Games and**
**children attend with their parents and**
**siblings so the whole family can enjoy**
**the event. It helps all families as parents**
**can see how adults who were**
**transplanted as children have lived**
**active and fulfilling lives. The children**
**can meet others with similar challenges**
**of living with a transplant, and their**
**siblings meet other children who have**
**brother/sister with chronic condition.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**No further details**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**No further details**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**No further details**| |---|---|---| |Other||| |**Financial Review**||| |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity’s financial position at year**
**end is strong. There are reserves held to**
**meet agreed commitments and**
**sufficient funds to operate the charity.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**At year end we held a specific reserve of**
**£28,019 towards the Transplant Games.**
**Funds raised specifically for the**
**Transplant Games is used to meet any**
**costs and the surplus is segregated.**
**The remaining cash is held in**
**unrestricted funds to meet committed**
**spending of c£90,000 payable over the**
**next 2 years.**
**£1,500 reserves to be held should**
**Carpenters solicitors reclaim donation**
**made from dormant client balances.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Total reserves £306,487 which includes**
**general fund £278,468 and transplant**
**games fund £28,019.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There are no uncertainties regarding the**
**charity.**| ## **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|**Our main source of funds this year has**
**been donations from organisations,**
**individuals and groups.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Policy is to invest in risk free UK bank**
**accounts.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Donations have increased this year but**
**the charity is reliant on continued**
**receipt of charitable donations. That**
**said, the charity is secure and has**
**sufficient funds to operate for many**
**years.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution adopted 1968 and amended**
**15th May 1970, 25th June 1971, 7th**
**October 2005 and 4th December 2020.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated charity. Association, no**
**defined membership.**| |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|**Trustee are appointed or reappointed at**
**the Annual General Meeting held each**
**year.**| |**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|**No further information**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**No further details, independent charity**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**No further details, no formal**
**relationships but by the nature of the**
**charity we work with patients and staff**
**at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation**
**Trust.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Alder Hey Children’s Kidney Fund| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|256051| |Charity’s principal address|Renal Unit
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool
L12 2AP| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Janet Green|Treasurer||| ||John Green|Chairman||| ||Pauline Appleton|||| ||Andrew Appleton|||| ||John Joynt|||| ||Kevin Burgess|||| ||Pat Rose|||| ||Grace Burgess|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Not applicable| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|Not applicable| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|Not applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|J Green|J K Green| |---|---|---| ||Janet Green|John Green| ||
Treasurer|| ||8thJuly 2025|| ||8thJuly 2025|| ## **ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S KIDNEY FUND REGISTERED CHARITY 256051** ## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** ## **YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2025** . ## **ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S KIDNEY FUND** BALANCE SHEET AT 31 MARCH 2025 |**Assets**
Office equipment
**Current assets**
Royal Bank of Scotland
Redwood Bank
Charity Bank
Nationwide
Debtor
**Deduct Current liabilities**
Creditor
**Represented by:**
**Reserves**
Balance at 1 April 2024
**Plus: Excess of income over expenditure for the year**
General Fund
Transplant Games Reserve
**Capital Commitments**
Haeme-dialysis programme £80000
Ultrasound equipment for RDU c£5k
Collaboration with Kidney Research UK £5k|**£**
144277
78610
41901
41700
-|**2025**
**£**
-
306488
306488
297410
9077
306487
278468
28019
306487|**£**
142411
75000
40000
40000
-|**2024**
**£**
-
297411| |---|---|---|---|---| ||306488||297411|| |||||| |||||297411| |||||272172
25238| |||||297410| |||||268368
29042| |||||297410| |||||| ## **Other** Donation £1500 from Carpenters received 26.3.21 from dormant client balances with agreement it could be recalled Signed on behalf of all Trustees of Alder Hey Children's Kidney Fund 1 2 ## **ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S KIDNEY FUND** INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025 |**Income**
Donations
Fund raising events
Interest received
**Expenditure**
Equipment
Welfare
Courses
Research
Transplant Games costs
Donations
**Administration**
Travelling, stationery, postage, insurance
and sundry expenses
**Excess of income over expenditure for the**
**year carried forward to Balance Sheet**|**£**
1028
6150
0
8509
22803|**2025**
**£**
38978
9095
48073
38996
9077|**£**
49
6725
0
17773
15489
500|**2024**
**£**
63118
3092| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||66211
40972| ||38489
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436|| |||||| |||||25238| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustsesl members of Alder Hey Children's Kidney Fund On accounts for the year onded 31 St March 2025 Charlty no (rfany) 256051 Set out on pages l ￿pOrt to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the atjove charity {Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3110312024. Responsibilities and As the ch￿lty trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accourrts in accordan￿ with the requiremerrts of the Charities Act 2011 fthe A￿). I report in resF*d of my examinalion of the Trusfs a¢￿untS carried out under set*ion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Dire￿10r￿ given by the Charity Commission under sedion 145(5){b) of the Act. I have wnpleted my examination. I confinTJ that rK> materbal matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed t*low ') in connection with the examinatK)n which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounts.ng records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Ad or the accourts do not accc*d with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statsment I have no cOn￿mS and have come across no other mattèrs in connection th the examination to which attention should t* drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reaGhed. . Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed: 16 202 5- Name: Richard Cassidy Relevant professional qualification{s) or body {if any): Address: 9 Orton Road Liverpool L16 6AR IER October 2018 Section B Disc105ure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of COn￿M (see CC32, Independent examination of tharity accounts: directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examlner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018