EAST SUFFOLK AND NORTH ESSEX NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS

Registered charity 1048827 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLCHESTER AND IPSWICH HOSPITALS CHARITY, IPSWICH HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS, THE IPSWICH HOSPITAL CHARITY

Healthcare associated with the running of a large general hospital.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided text consists solely of a list of restricted funds and their descriptions, without any financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserve figures. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be made from this excerpt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EAST SUFFOLK & NORTH ESSEX FOUNDATION TRUST

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

Operates in: Essex · Suffolk

Income and spending

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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 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE TRUST FUNDS.

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE TRUST FUNDS income £88k
• NORTH EAST AMBULANCE SERVICE TRUST FUND income £281k
• GEORGE BESSELL D.F.M. TRUST income £32k
• NORTHUMBRIA HEALTH CARE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST CHARITY income £2.4m
• EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £329k
• NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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