NORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES

Registered charity 1122470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Charitable Funds depend on publc donations and fund raising activities held by First Responder groups. General Funds continue to support staff retirement gifts & functions along with training and recreational activities. Lancashire & Cumbria First Responders are actively involved in continuous fund raising in support of medical equipment for services performed in the community.

Objects

SEE CONSTITUENT CHARITIES

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets decreased by £236k to £682k due to an intentional deficit where expenditure exceeded income, managed to maximize charitable impact. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £307k, which the trustees consider significantly higher than the policy target of £78k, allowing for prudent spending over a three-year business plan.

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
• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NWAS NHS TRUST

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS.

• EAST OF ENGLAND AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £329k
• NORTH CUMBRIA HOSPITALS NHS CHARITY income £359k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HEALTH CHARITABLE FUND income £1.3m
• NORTH WEST ANGLIA NHS FOUNDATION TRUST - PETERBOROUGH AND STAMFORD UMBRELLA CHARITABLE FUND income £884k
• MILTON KEYNES HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £369k
• LONDON NORTH WEST HEALTHCARE CHARITABLE FUND income £769k

Side by side with its peers

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