CHILDREN'S HEART SURGERY FUND

Registered charity 1148359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main objective of the charity is to enhance the quality of care and support available to babies, young children and adult congenital cardiac patients, who are treated at the Leeds Congenital Heart Unit, based at Leeds General Infirmary.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIEF OF SICK CHILDREN AND UNBORN CHILDREN, AND ADULTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART CONDITIONS, WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE TRUSTEES MAY:1) PROVIDE EQUIPMENT FOR MEDICAL OR NURSING TREATMENT IN THE CHILDREN'S HEART UNIT AT THE LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY (OR ELSEWHERE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT);2) PROVIDE FUNDS TO ENABLE MEDICAL, NURSING AND OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONALS EMPLOYED OR WORKING AT OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHILDREN'S HEART UNIT AT THE LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY (OR ELSEWHERE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT) TO ATTEND OR PARTICIPATE IN LECTURES OR COURSES OR EDUCATIONAL OR TRAINING PLACEMENTS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS WHICH THEY EXERCISE IN THEIR WORK AND/OR TO PROVIDE SUCH MEDICAL, NURSING AND OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WITH TRAINING MATERIALS;3) PROVIDE SUCH ADDITIONAL FACILITIES AS MAY BENEFIT PATIENTS AT THE CHILDREN'S HEART UNIT AT THE LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY (OR ELSEWHERE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND IN PARTICULAR FACILITIES (INCLUDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) TO ENABLE THE PARENTS OR NEAR RELATIVES OF PATIENTS TO BE IN ATTENDANCE UPON PATIENTS DURING THE PERIOD OF THEIR TREATMENT OR CARE; AND4) PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RELEVANT RESEARCH.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £137,788 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirmed that free reserves of £355,161 represented 5.3 months' costs, which falls within their stated policy target of four to six months. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HPH. 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08152970 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children's Heart Surgery Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ruth Davany — CEO (source)
• Colin Clewes — Chair of Trustees (source)

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WILLCOXSON, Fiona Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• DUNN, Sophie Rebecca — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• KING, Jason Paul — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• WILKINSON, Ryan Harris — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• CONCHIE, Alison — director, appointed 22/09/2022on trustee list
• CLEWES, Colin William — director, appointed 03/03/2022on trustee list
• FIDLER, Matthew John — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• VAN DOORN, Catharina Adriana Maria — director, appointed 29/05/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 45.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin William Cleweschair
• Alison Conchie
• CATHARINA ADRIANA MARIA VAN DOORN
• Fiona Willcoxson
• Jason King
• Matthew Fidler
• Ryan Wilkinson
• Sophie Dunn
• Wendy Haigh

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Children's Hearts UK.

• Children's Hearts UK income £141k
• HEART LINK CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £211k
• THE CHILDREN'S SURGERY FOUNDATION income £45k
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• THE CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CIO income £339k
• LONDON HEARTS income £5.4m

Side by side with its peers

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