THE BLOOD CARE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1003619 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLOOD CARE FOUNDATION

The principal activity is the supply and distribution of screened blood, resuscitation fluids, sterile transfusion equipment, rabies immunoglobulin and vaccines.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH

Area of benefit: AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £148,188 at year-end, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02626039

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Blood Care Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LATHAM, Tom, Dr — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• LORD, Lucy, Dr — director, appointed 17/06/2024not on trustee list
• BRUCE, Julian Neil — director, appointed 01/07/2019on trustee list
• PEARSON, Bryan John — director, appointed 15/01/2019on trustee list
• LEE, Christopher Peter — director, appointed 28/07/2011on trustee list
• BARRETT, Jane, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2007on trustee list
• BRUCE, Michael Gordon — director, appointed 02/07/1991on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julian Neil Brucechair
• Bryan Pearson
• Dr Christopher Peter Lee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Jane Barrett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr LUCY LORD MBE
• Dr Tom Latham
• MICHAEL GORDON BRUCE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hong Kong · Mali · Netherlands · Nigeria · Somalia · South Africa · Switzerland · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY.

• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £290k
• HBDCA income £162k
• NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT TRUST FUND income £140k
• GLOBAL BLOOD FUND (EUROPE) income £201k
• Merseyside Against Blood Cancers income £119k
• FREEWHEELERS EMERGENCY VOLUNTARY BLOOD BIKE SERVICE income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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