THE PATIENTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1006733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Patients Association exists to promote the health and wellbeing of people in the United Kingdom by influencing the enhancement of health and care services and assisting people to secure the most suitable care and support.

Objects

TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT SICKNESS OF PEOPLE IN THE UK BY PROMOTING THE ENHANCEMENT OF MEDICAL, SURGICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC AND ASSISTING PEOPLE TO SECURE THE BEST TREATMENT.

Area of benefit: UK

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £60,811, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £415,541. Per the trustees' report, this reserves level is above the stated risk-based target of £275,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolin Ott
• Julia Ross
• Julie Thallon
• Mark Blaney
• Meryl Davies
• Prof Alf Collins
• Teena Chowdhury
• Thomas Grinyer
• Wiqas Valji

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PSHE ASSOCIATION.

• PSHE ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• THE RAHERE ASSOCIATION income £158k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR PERIOPERATIVE PRACTICE income £1.5m
• ASSOCIATION OF ANAESTHETISTS (GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND) income £8.7m
• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGICAL SURGEONS LIMITED income £2.4m
• ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES income £10.3m

Side by side with its peers

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