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PHOEBE LYLE TRUST

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Charity no. 103216 Date registered. 05/08/2015

Public benefits

The direct benefits which flow from the purposes of the Phoebe Lyle Trust include providing financial help to enhance the quality of life of children who are permanently disabled and require ventilation as a result of spinal injuries. These benefits will be demonstrated through feedback from families who have received help. There is no

foreseeable harm from this purpose. The beneficiaries are children who are permanently disabled and require ventilation as a result of spinal injuries. The only private benefit flowing from this purpose is the families of the recipients also able to use specific items provided, for example a generator or motor vehicle and this is incidental and necessary because the primary beneficiary is the child to whom the grant was made. The direct benefits which flow from the purposes of the Phoebe Lyle Trust include promotion or support of projects of research or investigation into spinal regeneration and/or the care and treatment of ventilator dependent children. These benefits will be demonstrated through feedback from project managers who have received help. There is no foreseeable harm from this purpose. The beneficiaries are the projects outlined above. There will be no private benefit.

What your organisation does

The charity provides financial help to families who have a child who is permanently disabled and requires ventilation as a result of spinal injuries. Previous grants have been given to help buy adapted vehicles, generators, help with electricity bills, covering the accommodation costs of highly trained carers to allow the family to go on holiday,

IT equipment and also grants to the Home Ventilation Team at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives
  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • Parents
  • Physical disabilities
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Disability
  • General charitable purposes
  • Grant making
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Research/evaluation

Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2021

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2020

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Charity accounts & reports for financial year end 31 March 2019

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Charitable purposes

The charity is established:- for the relief of financial need in respect of children who are permanently disabled and require ventilation as a result of spinal injuries in road traffic accidents or otherwise and covering inter alis the funding of any medical, surgical, health care, therapeutic, welfare or caring expenses which in the opinion of the Trustees will enhance the quality of life of those children; in furtherance to those objects to initiate promote and support any projects or projects of research or evaluation into spinal regeneration and/or the care and treatment of ventilator dependent children.

Governing document

Trust Deed or Declaration of Trust

Other name

PLTF

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland