ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY
Registered charity 1061384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 1.RD&E CHARITY 2.OVER AND ABOVE, RD&E CHARITY, RD&E CHARITY OVER AND ABOVE, RD&E CHARITY - OVER AND ABOVE, RD&E CHARITYOVER AND ABOVE, ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY
The Charity raises funds for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to benefit both patients and staff over and above what is possible with NHS funding. We assist with the purchase of capital equipment and contributions towards capital schemes, patient welfare, staff training and development, staff welfare and medical research
Objects
FOR ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND 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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,936,000, while total resources expended were £2,587,000, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,324,000, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to meet their stated policy target of three months of relevant resources.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of the total relevant resources due to be expended (reserves figure: £2.3m)
“The Trustee is of the opinion that to safeguard the continuing work and commitments of the Charity the level of reserves should equate to 3 months of the total relevant resources due to be expended.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 14
“The Charity has made grants (Note 8.1) of £1,794,000 (2023/24: £1,414,000) and reimbursed £491,000 (2023/24: £443,000) relating to support costs (Note 6.1) to the Trust. No members of the Trust's Board of Directors have received honoraria, emoluments or expenses from the Charity in the year.” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by KPMG LLP. Discloses 5 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
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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 70
- Government income: £3,424 — grants £3,424 (2); under 1% of the £1,936,000 total gross income on the same return
- Grant-making is its main activity
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 70
- Government income: £2,076 — grants £2,076 (3); under 1% of the £2,178,000 total gross income on the same return
- Grant-making is its main activity
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 60
- Government income: £1,525 — grants £1,525 (1); under 1% of the £3,628,000 total gross income on the same return
- Grant-making is its main activity
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Devon Hospitals Charity (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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£675k
Reported reserves equal ~10.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (19/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (27/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (23/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (31/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (29/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (13/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Angela Hibbard
- Brigid Kent
- Carolyn Mills
- Chris Tidman
- Dame Shan Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dr ADRIAN HARRIS
- Dr Martin Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dr Vanessa Purday
- Kaye Bentley
- Philip Luke
- Professor Sarah Elizabeth Lamb
- Professor Yaseen Timothy McIntyre-Bhatty
- Richard Potter · trustee of 1 other charity
- Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Samuel Higginson
- Steven Keith
- Timothy Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
- William Boa
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Devon
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,936,000, while total resources expended were £2,587,000, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,324,000, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to meet their stated policy target of three months of relevant resources. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by KPMG LLP.
Who funds ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY as a grant recipient include COUNTY AIR AMBULANCE TRUST, PARKINSON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES, G F EYRE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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