THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 1054745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PRINCESS ALEXANDER HOSPITALS CHARITY, THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITALS CHARITY

Funds support a wide range of charitable and health related activities benefitting both patients and staff of The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. In general they are used to purchase the very varied additional goods and services that the NHS is unable to provide.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £835,000 in total income and spent £613,000 on charitable activities and fundraising, resulting in a net surplus of £223,000. The unrestricted reserves stood at £966,000 at the end of the financial year. 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Princess Alexandra Hospital 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 ~18.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUEEN VICTORIA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND.

• QUEEN VICTORIA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £253k
• THE PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL (ELY) CHARITABLE TRUST income £118k
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS CHARITY income £6.0m
• CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £493k
• CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES CHARITABLE FUND income £891k
• THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £635k

Side by side with its peers

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