SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 1052284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SALISBURY HEALTH CARE CHARITABLE FUND, STARS APPEAL

The charity aims to support the patients and staff of Salisbury District Hospital. There are numerous funds each with written objectives and Trustees ensure that expenditure complies with these objectives. The charity raises funds to purchase additional medical equipment and facilities, to support those provided by the 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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £3,329,000 from £1,963,000 in the prior year, driven largely by a rise in legacies. Free reserves stood at £8,679,000, which the Trustee considers sufficient to meet long-term financial obligations of £6,557,000. The charity reported a net asset increase of £913,000, with no material uncertainties identified 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 Fletcher & Partners. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephen Oxley — Chairman Fundraising Committee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~38.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SALISBURY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST BOARD

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND.

• DORSET HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £220k
• DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £664k
• THE SHREWSBURY AND TELFORD HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITY income £557k
• SALISBURY FOODBANK income £592k
• Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited income £2.7m
• DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £856k

Side by side with its peers

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