The sole trustee of the Charity is Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a ‘corporate trustee’, and the Charity’s primary beneficiary; the public is the ultimate beneficiary. The address of the Trust’s principal office is the same as that of the Charity.
More information about the corporate trustee can be found here: https://sthk.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/annual-report-and-accounts
The Corporate Trustee is managed by its Board of Directors which consists of executive and non-executive directors. It has responsibility for ensuring that the NHS body fulfils its duties in managing the charitable funds. Members of the Trust Board are not individual trustees under Charity Law, but act as agents on behalf of the Corporate Trustee. They fulfil the Trustee’s legal duty by ensuring that funds are spent in accordance with objects and in pursuit of patient benefit, and independently determine the Charity’s strategy through meetings of the Charitable Funds Committee.