BAY HOSPITALS CHARITY

Registered charity 1048685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LANCASTER ACUTE HOSPITALS CHARITY, MORECAMBE BAY HOSPITALS CHARITY

The Charity's aim is to use the donations received to enhance the services provided by University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, thereby improving patient care. This is acheived through the provision of additional equipment, services, training and education. The Charity also funds items directly related to patient and staff welfare which could not be purchased using NHS funds.

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.

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: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £3,061,689 at the end of the financial year, up from £2,956,000 the previous year. The charity reported a net income surplus of £106,000, driven by total incoming resources of £828,219 against total expenditure of £722,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 Rawcliffe & Co Chartered Accountants. 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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bay Hospitals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS TRUST

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

Operates in: Cumbria · Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND.

• DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £220k
• County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £380k
• MAIDSTONE AND TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS CHARITABLE FUND income £593k
• THE COUNTESS CHARITY income £664k
• WATERBEACH UNITED CHARITIES income £30k
• THE BAY TRUST income £274k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.