UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS CHARITY

Registered charity 1054889 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE FUND, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE CHARITY

UHNM Charity is the official charity for University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: which manages Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital, Stafford. Its priority is to enhance patient experience and outcomes over and above what the NHS can provide through funding pioneering research, refurbishment and enhancements, and advanced medical equipment, technology and systems.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME, AND AT THEIR DISCRETION, SO FAR AS MAYBE PERMISSIBLE, THE CAPITAL FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICEWHOLLY OR MAINLY FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDED BY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £8.1 million exceed the agreed reserves policy target of three years' operational and governance costs. The charity reported a net income increase to £5.1 million, driven largely by a £6.4 million donation from the Denise Coates Foundation, while total expenditure was £3.1 million. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 audited by Dains Audit 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
• 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

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 — University Hospitals of North Midlands Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~31.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Rushton

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Derbyshire · Shropshire · Staffordshire

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 UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY.

• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY income £6.2m
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS CHARITY income £6.0m
• MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £4.1m
• ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £1.9m
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE CHARITY income £770k
• THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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