DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 1050861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VALLEY HOSPITAL CHARITY, YOUR NHS HOSPITAL CHARITY - DARENT VALLEY, QUEEN MARY'S AND ERITH DISTRICT HOSPITAL

The charity aims to provide support to the Trust by the following means: Patient expenditure - small items of equipment etc not normally provided by or in addition to the normal nhs provision.Staff expenditure - motivation of staff , by improving staff facilities and above what would normally be provided by the NHSCapital equipment - purchases of equipment not normally provided by NHS

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dartford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,152,000, a significant increase from the previous year's £852,000, driven largely by £445,000 in legacy income. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient funds to meet liabilities for at least 12 months. The charity reports no restricted funds and notes that it does not enter into future commitments, ensuring spending is covered by available income.

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 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.

• 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
• 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

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

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• NHS Charities Together — “We are delighted to say that to date we have received over £250,000 from their Covid-19 Appeal . We are extremely grateful for this support…” (source page)
• Tibra Capital Foundation — “We received a generous donation from Tibra Capital Foundation to refurbish our out dated and scruffy Bereavement Suite.” (source page)
• Barclays — “We are delighted to have received a grant from Barclays' COVID-19 Community Aid Package to support this project.” (source page)
• GXO Logistics — “As GXO's Charity of the Year, their continued support of our Lollipop Children's Fund 🍭will help us enhance Paediatric services at Dartford…” (source page)
• Sainsbury Dartford — “Our Cancer Fighting Fund was chosen as the Charity of the Year 2016/17 by Sainsbury Dartford who took part in lots of fundraising activiti…” (source page)

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

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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND.

• LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £271k
• DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £856k
• County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity income £380k
• SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £3.3m
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £88k
• HARROGATE AND DISTRICT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £599k

Side by side with its peers

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