BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1083272 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARCHESTER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION, WESTMINSTER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION

Barchester Healthcare Foundation helps older people as well as working age adults with a learning or physical disability or mental health issue across England, Scotland and Wales. We give grants to help reduce isolation and loneliness, promote group activities and generally improve people's mobility and quality of life. We help individuals, small community groups and small local charities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS AND TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILLNESS, BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS, OR THE EFFECTS OF OLD AGE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1. THE CONDUCT OR COMMISSIONING OF RESEARCH INTO THE TREATMENT, DIAGNOSIS OR PREVENTION OF SUCH ILLNESSES, DISORDERS OR AGEING PROCESSES AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND 2. THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, BURSARIES OR SUBSIDIES TO THOSE SUFFERING FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED ILLNESSES, DISORDERS OR EFFECTS OF OLD AGE.

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 · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £33,000 for the year, resulting in unrestricted fund balances decreasing from £311,000 to £278,000. The trustees consider the charity has the ability to continue its operations for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified. Reserves are held in a designated fund of £253,000, which slightly exceeds the stated policy target of £250,000.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04002177

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Barchester's Charitable Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CONWAY, Shona — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• GIBSON, Suzanne Florence — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• COUNSELL, Mitch — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• LEWIS, Irene — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• HAMBLEN, Helen Sarah — director, appointed 01/03/2024on trustee list
• HALE, Sally — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• MCCALL, Simon James — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• HATHER, Jon — secretary, appointed 03/10/2002

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon McCallchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Armstrong
• Dr Pete Calveley
• Helen Hamblen
• Irene Lewis
• Sally Hale
• Shona Conway
• Suzanne Gibson

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

Operates in: Jersey · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• Boroughbridge Community Charity income £83k
• Berkshire Healthcare Charity income £641k
• BERKSHIRE HEALTH & WELL-BEING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES income £174k
• BARNSLEY INDEPENDENT ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA SUPPORT income £495k
• CHESTERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £107k
• WORCESTERSHIRE BREAST UNIT HAVEN income £256k

Side by side with its peers

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