GREAT WESTERN HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1050892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIGHTER FUTURES, SWINDON AND MARLBOROUGH NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

CHARITY SUPPORTS EXPENDITURE RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE:BENEFICIARIES ARE THE GREAT WESTERN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (THE CORPORATE TRUSTEE) AND WILTSHIRE HEALTH & CARE LLP.AIMS:1. ENHANCING ENVIRONMENT / FACILITIES FOR PATIENTS AND STAFF2. ENABLE STAFF AND CARERS TO OBTAIN EDUCATION / TRAINING OUTSIDE OF NHS BUDGET3. ADDITIONAL HEALTHCARE EQUIPMENT OUTSIDE OF NHS BUDGET

Objects

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets decreased by £321,000 to £951,000 due to a net outgoing resource of £321,000. Free reserves stood at £260,000, which is above the stated minimum policy target of £57,000. 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 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 59.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GREAT WESTERN HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS.

• HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £134k
• LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £769k
• ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £1.3m
• CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £493k
• NORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £357k
• THE SHREWSBURY AND TELFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITY income £557k

Side by side with its peers

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