WALSALL HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 1057416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WALSALL HOSPITALS NHS TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND, WELL WISHERS

The objectives of the charity are for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service wholly or mainly for the service provided by the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. Donations are used in accordance with the wishes of the donor i.e. to purchase medical equipment, provide amenities to patients and staff and finance limited education and medical research.

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE WHOLLY OR MAINLY FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE WALSALL HOSPITALS 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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £178,000 against income of £315,000, resulting in a decrease in total fund balances from £1,630,000 to £1,460,000. The trustees confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, noting that net assets are sufficient to cover six months of expenditure. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting six months of future expenditure, with actual unrestricted reserves of £931,000 falling below the stated £500,000 contingency reserve target when considering the total fund balance context, though the specific unrestricted figure is not directly compared to the policy target in the text.

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 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Well Wishers (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WALSALL HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND.

• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £3.3m
• SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £519k
• POWYS TEACHING LOCAL HEALTH BOARD CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £251k
• THE HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS HEALTH CHARITY income £2.4m
• BRADFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £357k

Side by side with its peers

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