NEWBURY AND THATCHAM HOSPITAL BUILDING TRUST

Registered charity 1067608 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of hospital services - maintaining the provision of high quality facilities management at the West Berkshire Community Hospital and to provide assistance in kind to the Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) and the Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) to carry out improvements where necessary.

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Latest income

£6.5m

Latest spending

£5.6m

Registered

1998

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £11,504,045, which the Trustees consider appropriate given the long-term PFI contract and operational risks. The charity reported a net income of £950,657 for the year, funded primarily by income from charitable activities and investment returns, with no employees and no trustee remuneration.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient funding available to overcome any given emergency... provide operational costs in the case of failure of the Facilities Management Company... hold funds to develop the hospital if there is an appropriate medical requirement that BHFT is unable or unwilling to fund (held: £11.5m)

“The Trustees consider that they need to keep sufficient funding available to overcome any given emergency with the hospital buildings and to provide operational costs in the case of failure of the Facilities Management Company. They also hold funds to develop the hospital if there is an appropriate medical requirement that BHFT is unable or unwilling to fund.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income

£6.5m

Total spending

£5.6m

Cost of raising funds

£8k

Reserves (reported)

£11.5m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~24.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr ROBERT GEOFFREY TAYTONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr KEITH ENDERSBY
Dr Richard John Rudgley
Jacqueline Sarah Davis
Paul Townsend
Sarah Elizabeth Deal
Shane David Prater
Sylvia Galbraith
Victoria Anne Hopgood

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£6.5m	£5.6m
30/09/2024	£7.1m	£6.0m
30/09/2023	£5.6m	£5.3m
30/09/2022	£5.4m	£5.1m
30/09/2021	£5.7m	£6.3m

Common questions

Is NEWBURY AND THATCHAM HOSPITAL BUILDING TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £11,504,045, which the Trustees consider appropriate given the long-term PFI contract and operational risks. The charity reported a net income of £950,657 for the year, funded primarily by income from charitable activities and investment returns, with no employees and no trustee remuneration. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by UHY Ross Brooke.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES	5	£1.9m
THE HARRY & MARY FOUNDATION	1	£55k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£4k
THE DWF FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Berkshire Healthcare Charity.

Berkshire Healthcare Charity income £641k
ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £1.3m
THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £1.1m
BRADFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £357k
Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity, supported by Friends of Harrogate Hospital income £599k
SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £519k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NEWBURY AND THATCHAM HOSPITAL BUILDING TRUST	£6.5m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Berkshire Healthcare Charity FY2025	£641k	—	above	—	no doubt
ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY FY2025	£1.3m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY FY2025	£1.1m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BRADFORD HOSPITALS CHARITY FY2025	£357k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Harrogate Hospital and Community Charity, supported by Friends of Harrogate Hospital FY2025	£599k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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