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Children’s Charity Merseyside CIO

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1183756PrescotDisability
Income£68k2025-03-31
Spending£57ksame year
Spent / received74%5-year average
Size in its cause60th pctDisability
Registered2019CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Children’s Charity Merseyside CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Prescot. It was registered in June 2019, 7 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, recreation and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Children’s Charity Merseyside CIO reported income of £68k and spending of £57k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £16k to £68k (+328%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 157%. Over the whole period it spent 74% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Children’s Charity Merseyside CIO sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oxford Winter Night Shelter (£68k), Bradford Flower Homes Development Limited (£68k) and Nottinghamshire Down's Syndrome Support Group (£68k).

Income and spending

£0£17k£34k£51k£68k2021 Income: £15,9872021 Spending: £15,19120212022 Income: £41,0212022 Spending: £20,00720222023 Income: £58,6102023 Spending: £41,50120232024 Income: £55,3582024 Spending: £42,45020242025 Income: £68,4082025 Spending: £57,0992025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The objects of the CIO are to relieve the needs of children and young people in Merseyside and in surrounding areas who are in need as a result of ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, by providing or assisting in the provision of specialist items and equipment with a view to improving the beneficiaries conditions of life.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Oxford Winter Night ShelterOxford£68k
Bradford Flower Homes Development LimitedShipley£68k
Nottinghamshire Down's Syndrome Support GroupNottinghamshire£68k
Hertford and District MencapWaltham Cross£68k