PLYMOUTH HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITY AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1048679 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service, wholly or mainly for the services provided by Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Livewell Southwest CIC.

Objects

SEE INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENTS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased by £164,000 to £3,640,000, driven by a significant rise in legacy income which reached £471,000. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £2,918,000, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of £1,250,000. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~39.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• UNIVERSITY HOSPTALS PLYMOUTH NHS TRUST

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS CHARITY.

• PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS CHARITY income £963k
• PLYMOUTH PUBLIC DISPENSARY income £59k
• PLYMOUTH CHARITY TRUST income £558k
• Accessibility Powys income £301k
• ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £2.8m
• THE P T C TRUST income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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