Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charity

Registered charity 1057266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHEND HEALTH CARE (NHS) TRUST CHARITY, SOUTHEND HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUNDS, SOUTHEND HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITY, SOUTHEND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY

The Charity's objective for the year has been to continue to support Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust with grants towards building expenditure, the purchase of equipment, and patient and staff welfare and amenities.

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

Registered contact address: Southend-on-Sea, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported total income of £1,424,000 and total expenditure of £1,817,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a net movement in funds of £138,000. Total reserves held at year-end were £5,880,000, which falls within the stated policy target range of £0.5 million to £5.0 million. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the trustees or the independent auditor.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mid & South Essex Hospitals Charity (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~14.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITIES.

• ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITIES income £115k
• Southend Hospital Foundation income £329k
• MWL NHS Charity income £321k
• ELFT CHARITY income £166k
• EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £225k
• EAST KENT HOSPITALS CHARITY income £515k

Side by side with its peers

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