SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1054086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal objective of the Charity is to provide additional support to the patients of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is achieved by the prioritisation of needs and the granting of expenditure on items such as refurbishment, medical equipment and staff eduction and welfare.

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

Registered contact address: Ashfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1.345 million, with total net assets of £1.91 million. The reserves policy aims to maintain a working cash balance of £150,000, and the year-end fund balances equate to approximately 38 months of expenditure. The charity reported a net decrease in funds of £87,000 for the year, primarily due to charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

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 22/07/2024, 173 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~26.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS NHS TRUST

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY.

• SHEFFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £3.3m
• CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £493k
• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £664k
• THE ASHFORD AND ST PETER'S HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FUND income £409k
• THE PETER JOHN FOORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £96k

Side by side with its peers

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