PHARMACIST SUPPORT

Registered charity 1158974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENEVOLENT FUNDS OF THE ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN

We provide health and wellbeing focused support to current and former pharmacists and their dependants, as well as students and trainees in Great Britain. Our support aims to meet their wellbeing needs, whether those be financial, physical, psychological or social.

Objects

5. The Charity's objects are specifically restricted to the relief of financial need or other distress and the advancement of general health and wellbeing of:5.1 any individual whose name is or has ever been on the Register of Pharmacists maintained by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) (or formerly maintained by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain), and their dependants;5.2 any Pharmacy Trainees in Great Britain; 5.3 any Pharmacy Students in Great Britain; or5.4 any other individual who is a current Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), as determined by the trustees from time to time.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £41,820 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to volatility in investment returns. However, the trustees confirm that total reserves of £15,109,413 remain within the stated policy range of £12.5 million to £18.75 million, and the charity continues to meet its short-term financial obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pharmacist Support (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~155.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (70% 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: 33.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Esther Sadler-Williamschair
• Alison Scowcroft
• David Edward Downham
• Dr Sarah Willis
• Leah Anne Davies
• Mala Khiroya
• Mark Sweeney
• Mohammed Hussain
• Paul William Day · trustee of 2 other charities
• Raj Kumar Nutan

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FULL FACT.

• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• PHARMACY RESEARCH UK income £87k
• THE DENTISTS HEALTH SUPPORT TRUST income £113k
• YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE income £1.2m
• INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS (UK) LIMITED income £19.4m
• PROFESSIONALS AID COUNCIL income £199k

Side by side with its peers

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