FRIENDS OF BRAINTREE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Registered charity 1144843 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide non-medical support, in various ways, to patients and visitors to the hospital, and to provide the voice of a critical friend to those charged with the management of the hospital and its services.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF PATIENTS AND VISITORS OF THE BRAINTREE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, AND OF OTHER PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITY, BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £32,326, an increase from the previous year's £27,718. The trustees report that the charity is entitled to exemption from audit under the Companies Act 2006. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MANN · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Jacob
• Janet Green
• Linda Hotston
• MOIA THOROGOOD · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR TONY EVERARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marian Redding
• Marion Jacob
• Pamela Maskell
• Patricia Herbing
• Penny Pickman
• Shelia Pegram
• Yvonne Laity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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