EDITH CAVELL FUND FOR NURSES

Registered charity 1160148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAVELL NURSES' TRUST, Cavell · also registered in Scotland as SC041453 (OSCR)

Cavell is the charity supporting UK nurses, midwives and nursing associates, working and retired, when they're suffering personal or financial hardship. We offer a package of support to help everyone who gets in touch, giving emotional support, advice on maximising benefits, signposting to specialist services and grants to relieve financial hardship for those at greatest risk.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; AND(C) THE PROMOTION OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF NURSING.FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 4 OF THE SCHEME.THE DEFINITION OF "BENEFICIARY" HAS CHANGED BY DELETING "NURSES, AUXILIARY NURSES AND STUDENT NURSES" AND REPLACING IT WITH "NURSES, MIDWIVES, HEALTHCARE SUPPORT WORKERS AND STUDENT NURSES" WHEREVER IT OCCURS.

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

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

Registered contact address: Redditch, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £95,024 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £2,760,833. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of approximately £1,139,379 equate to roughly 13 months of operating costs, which is slightly below the stated policy target of 9 to 18 months. The trustees acknowledge a planned deficit for 2026 but remain confident in the charity's sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 — Cavell (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Nancy Fontainechair
• Cynthia Ruth Gumbiti-Zimuto
• David Malcolm Lewis
• Debra Moore
• Dr Hilda Hayo
• Dr Matthew Hodson MBE
• Elizabeth Harrison
• Eric Craig
• Francesca Woodhouse
• Paul Bishop

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 WOMEN@THEWELL.

• WOMEN@THEWELL income £666k
• MANWELL income £39k
• CATWEL (CARDIFF) income £269k
• THE 1930 FUND FOR DISTRICT NURSES (NO 1) income £72k
• THE NEONATAL NURSES ASSOCIATION income £167k
• NEWCASTLE CARERS income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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