THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND

Registered charity 1123381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charitable Company's principal activities are grant making to medical charities, hospices and hospitals and to individuals with health or disability problems. These donations and grants were made possible by the surplus profits of the Charitable Company's trading Company, HSF health plan, being gifted to The Hospital Saturday Fund.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£36.9m
Latest spending
£38.5m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net asset position of £45,208,180 at year-end, supported by unrestricted free reserves of £3,416,202. The Trustees are satisfied with this position and confident that sufficient funds will be available to meet future needs, noting that the charity relies on the success of its trading subsidiaries to fund grant-making activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Trustee donations
“Donations totalling £1,437 (2024: £nil) were received from two Trustees during the year.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: HSF Health Plan Ltd, HSF Health Plan Malta Ltd, HSF Assist Ltd
“The Hospital Saturday Fund is also the parent of three trading subsidiaries The HSF Health Plan Ltd, HSF Health Plan Malta Ltd & HSF Assist Ltd which generate the income from their trading activity to fund the grant-making.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£36.9m
Total spending
£38.5m
Cost of raising funds
£35.9m
Reserves (reported)
£23.1m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (98% 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: 97.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Ireland · Malta · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£36.9m£38.5m
31/12/2024£34.7m£36.2m
31/12/2023£31.6m£34.3m
31/12/2022£31.5m£28.5m
31/12/2021£31.1m£31.4m

Common questions

Is THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group reported a net asset position of £45,208,180 at year-end, supported by unrestricted free reserves of £3,416,202. The Trustees are satisfied with this position and confident that sufficient funds will be available to meet future needs, noting that the charity relies on the success of its trading subsidiaries to fund grant-making activities. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.

Who funds THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND as a grant recipient include CURE LEUKAEMIA, CEREBRAL PALSY PLUS, MACMILLAN CARING LOCALLY.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CURE LEUKAEMIAFY2024£10k
CURE LEUKAEMIAFY2022£10k
CEREBRAL PALSY PLUSFY2023£3k
MACMILLAN CARING LOCALLYFY2023£2ktraining – Jane Young coaching
CEREBRAL PALSY PLUSFY2022£243

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND£36.9m——above—no doubt
ELHT&ME FY2025£993k—0unclear—no doubt
THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£835k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ROBERT JONES AND AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£635k—0above—no doubt
KINGSTON HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£2.4m—0above12.7%no doubt
NORTH CUMBRIA HOSPITALS NHS CHARITY FY2025£359k—0unclear—no doubt

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