Black Country Healthcare Charity Fund

Registered charity 1060039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLACK COUNTRY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, BLACK COUNTRY MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND, BLACK COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, SANDWELL MENTAL HEALTH NHS AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST CHARITABLE FUND

The charity funds must be used to enhance the services that Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides. The funds must benefit patients, carers, communities and our staff that care for them. This could include supporting better care, wellbeing and recovery, improving the environments where care is delivered, research, training and activities for patients and carers.

Objects

FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE WHOLLY OR MAINLY FOR THE SERVICE PROVIDED BY SANDWELL MENTAL HEALTH NHS AND SOCIAL CARE 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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £191k for the year, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £343k. The charity has no stated reserves policy target, noting only that trustees have a general duty to apply funds within a reasonable time. The financial position is supported by incoming resources of £230k, primarily from grants and donations.

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 3 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
• Volunteer management

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

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity.

• Berkshire Healthcare Charity income £641k
• THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £1.1m
• THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £635k
• BLACK COUNTRY FOOD BANK LIMITED income £1.2m
• LINCOLNSHIRE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £137k
• POWYS TEACHING LOCAL HEALTH BOARD CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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