SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS

Registered charity 1059922 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LOVE MUSGROVE, Somerset NHS Charity, TAUNTON AND SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUNDS, TAUNTON AND SOMERSET NHS TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUNDS, YEOVIL HOSPITAL CHARITY

The Charity's objectives are as follows" the trustees shall hold the trust fund upon trust to apply the income, and at their discretion, the capital, for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service mainly in Somerset".

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £1,480,218 against charitable expenditure of £1,495,086, resulting in a net decrease in funds. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £6,285,760, which are well above the calculated minimum reserve requirement of £1,796,924. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2025) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2026).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Somerset NHS Foundation Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graham Hughes — Chair (source)
• James Kirton — Head of Charity (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~50.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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 STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND.

• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS CHARITY income £963k
• NORTH CUMBRIA HOSPITALS NHS CHARITY income £359k
• CALDERDALE AND HUDDERSFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £345k
• WALSALL HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND income £315k
• MEDWAY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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