PEOPLE'S HEALTH TRUST

Registered charity 1125537 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROJECT HEALTH TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC039848 (OSCR)

The charity make grants to charities and community groups within defined and published geographical areas across England, Scotland and Wales for the purpose of supporting greater health equity. The core principles behind our actions are that where a person lives should not unfairly reduce the length of that person?s life, or the quality of their health.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY INCREASING AND SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH EQUALITY IN AND FOR DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS ACROSS ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · 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 total income decreased significantly to £1,347,995 due to the cessation of society lottery donations, while total charitable expenditure was £1,947,373, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Despite this, the charity maintains strong unrestricted reserves of £1,132,609, which equate to 56.81 weeks of running costs, well above the stated policy target of 26 weeks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — People's Health Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Health Foundation — “This five-year initiative, funded by the Health Foundation, is working with a membership of 29 organisations from across different sectors a…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JENNIFER EDWARDSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Richard Bickerdike
• Jolynne Maria Bernadette De Souza
• Leandra Ebony Box
• Martin Hugh Fraser Anderson
• Ranjeet Singh Kaile
• SHELAGH KIRKLAND · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PUBLIC HEALTH COLLABORATION.

• PUBLIC HEALTH COLLABORATION income £354k
• HEALTH LIMITED income £10.0m
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• HEALTH FOR ALL (LEEDS) LTD income £2.4m
• COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION income £125k
• ACHIEVING GOALZ AND DREAMS income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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