PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1116071 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Training health professionals and providing courses in the management of severe injury, using only the resources available in the developing world.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR DOCTORS AND THIRD WORLD HEALTH WORKERS IN THE SUBJECT OF TRAUMA PREVENTION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£142k

Latest spending

£102k

Registered

2006

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved financial stability with total unrestricted funds rising to £33,088 from a deficit of £6,455 in the prior year. The trustees report that this stability was driven by corporate donations and personal contributions, although they note the fundraising event did not create a consistent stream of retained donations. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting three to six months of expenditure, which it currently meets.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three and six month’s expenditure (reserves figure: £33k)

“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting 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 30/11/2025

Volunteers: 900

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/11/2024

Volunteers: 25

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/11/2023

Volunteers: 25

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 05617836 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

ROSSITER, Nigel Daniel — director, appointed 16/06/2016not on trustee list
DUARTE, Juan Carlos, Dr — director, appointed 16/06/2016not on trustee list
TAYLOR, Andrew John — director, appointed 17/12/2015not on trustee list
FROSSARD, Rosalind Jeanne, Dr — director, appointed 11/12/2014not on trustee list
PHILLIPS, Georgina Ann, Doctor — director, appointed 11/12/2014not on trustee list
DE COURCY, James Gavin, Dr — director, appointed 04/10/2012not on trustee list
JOOMA, Rashid, Dr — director, appointed 24/03/2011not on trustee list
CLAYTON, Charles — secretary, appointed 17/05/2012

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Carole Anne Plantchair
Andrew William Kent
Dr Radhakrishnan Jayakrishnan
Jane Haxby
John Philip Laybourne · trustee of 1 other charity
Karen Newman · trustee of 1 other charity
Owen Williams

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

Operates in: Australia · Chile · Cook Islands · East Timor · Fiji · Germany · Guatemala · India · Indonesia · Jordan · Kiribati · Madagascar

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/11/2025	£142k	£102k
30/11/2024	£41k	£36k
30/11/2023	£7k	£7k
30/11/2022	£38k	£48k
30/11/2021	£8k	£12k

Common questions

Is PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved financial stability with total unrestricted funds rising to £33,088 from a deficit of £6,455 in the prior year. The trustees report that this stability was driven by corporate donations and personal contributions, although they note the fundraising event did not create a consistent stream of retained donations. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting three to six months of expenditure, which it currently meets. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE ARCHER TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ARCHER TRUST	FY2022	£2k	Trains medical professionals in middle and low income countries in trauma care at a primary level and equips them to train others.
THE ARCHER TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Charitable activities

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
THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION	1	£150k
ORDINARY 2 EXTRAORDINARY	1	£97k
ICAN CHARITY	1	£76k
Sound Church	1	£75k
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£61k
THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£32k
THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
DUDLEY AND GEOFFREY COX CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£18k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PRIMARY TRAUMA CARE FOUNDATION	£142k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TRAUMA RECOVERY CENTRE FY2025	£274k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PACE CENTRE LTD FY2025	£4.0m	—	1	above	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH TRAUMA SOCIETY FY2025	£39k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PRIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION FY2025	£558k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
REHABILITATION RESPONSE FY2025	£29k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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