DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND TRUST

Registered charity 1127100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aim is the Preservation of Health and the Relief of Sickness for children and young adults in the Community. With our partners the Teenage Cancer Trust, UHNS Hospital, Queens Hospital Burton, Cheltenham General, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Riverbank Ward at Worcester and the Hereford County Hospital, the Trust funds new medical equipment, community support, specialist nurses and much more.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE TRUSTS, FOUNDATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£161k
Latest spending
£155k
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £7,558 and states it has no policy of holding significant reserves. Its primary income source is an annual donation from its trading subsidiary, DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD. The trustees note that the retail sector remains a challenging environment and that increasing costs may impose operational challenges in 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD
“OUR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME HAS BEEN BY THE ANNUAL DONATION FROM DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: THE TRUST HAS NO POLICY OF HOLDING SIGNIFICANT RESERVES (reserves figure: £8k)
“THE TRUST HAS NO POLICY OF HOLDING SIGNIFICANT RESERVES” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD
“OUR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME HAS BEEN BY THE ANNUAL DONATION FROM DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD. A NOT-FOR-PROFIT COMMUNITY FUNDING ORGANISATION REGISTERED IN ENGLAND AND WALES NUMBER AS A LIMITED COMPANY NUMBER 4311438.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD
“THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDS ARE THE PROCEEDS FROM THE TRADING ACTIVITIES OF DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD AND ITS SHOPS.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 140
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 150
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 180
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£161k£155k
31/12/2024£165k£173k
31/12/2023£203k£222k
31/12/2022£202k£236k
31/12/2021£123k£62k

Common questions

Is DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £7,558 and states it has no policy of holding significant reserves. Its primary income source is an annual donation from its trading subsidiary, DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND LTD. The trustees note that the retail sector remains a challenging environment and that increasing costs may impose operational challenges in 2026. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES1£85k
AFPA TRUST1£2k
CANTIACORUM FOUNDATION1£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DAISYCHAIN BENEVOLENT FUND TRUST£161k——unclear—no doubt
DARTFORD AND GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£664k—0unclear—no doubt
LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND FY2025£271k—0above—no doubt
DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES FY2026£856k—0above—no doubt
THE DAIN FUND FY2025£55k—0above—no doubt
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Charity FY2025£380k—0unclear—no doubt

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