GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16993504 · Wikipedia · also known as GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' CHARITY

GUY’S AND ST THOMAS’ FOUNDATION IS AN INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INVESTING IN A HEALTHIER SOCIETY. WE FUND, INVEST, PARTNER, ENGAGE AND INFLUENCE TO COME AT BIG HEALTH CHALLENGES FROM ALL ANGLES. WE COLLABORATE WITH COMMUNITIES, PARTNERS, AND HOSPITALS, IN PARTICULAR GUY’S AND ST THOMAS’ NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, AND USE OUR ASSETS TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF GUY’S AND ST THOMAS’ NHS FOUNDATION TRUST OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE (AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT 2006 OR ANY STATUTORY MODIFICATION OF THAT SECTION) INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY:SECURING IMPROVEMENTS IN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH;SECURING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ILLNESS; AND THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£34.3m

Latest spending

£82.7m

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation remains in an exceptionally strong financial position, with free reserves of £17.7m and total net assets of £904.5m as of 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the endowment value decreased by £21.5m to £833.8m following a distribution of £53.8m to support charitable expenditure, while total staff costs increased to £15.6m. The Foundation maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Property rents (80% of income)

“Property - rents 18,476”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: maintaining the value of the expendable endowment in line with inflation over the long term (held: £17.7m)

“The Foundation aims to release 4% of the value of the expendable endowment on a smoothed basis annually to the unrestricted fund for charitable and other expenditure, whilst maintaining the value of the expendable endowment in line with inflation over the long term.” — page 54

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah, a Trustee, is the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation. During the year, Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation made a charitable contract totalling £71,403 to that organisation.

“Dr. Danny Sriskandarajah, a Trustee, is the Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation. During the year, Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation made a charitable contract totalling £71,403 to that organisation.” — page 64

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: GSTC Property Investments Ltd, GSTC Health Innovations Ltd, GSTC Property Developments Ltd

“The Foundation owns 100% of the share capital of three trading subsidiary companies: GSTC Property Investments Ltd, GSTC Health Innovations Ltd and GSTC Property Developments Ltd”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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
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
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

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 31/03/2025

Employees paid over £60,000: 74 (£60,001–£70,000: 35; £70,001–£80,000: 11; £80,001–£90,000: 6; £90,001–£100,000: 7; £100,001–£110,000: 2; £110,001–£120,000: 3; £120,001–£130,000: 3; £130,001–£140,000: 2; £150,001–£200,000: 3; £250,001–£300,000: 1; over £500,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Employees paid over £60,000: 85 (£60,001–£70,000: 37; £70,001–£80,000: 17; £80,001–£90,000: 4; £90,001–£100,000: 10; £100,001–£110,000: 4; £110,001–£120,000: 3; £130,001–£140,000: 1; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £150,001–£200,000: 6; £300,001–£350,000: 1; £400,001–£450,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Employees paid over £60,000: 42 (£60,001–£70,000: 15; £70,001–£80,000: 7; £80,001–£90,000: 10; £90,001–£100,000: 3; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 1; £130,001–£140,000: 1; £140,001–£150,000: 1; £200,001–£250,000: 1; £250,001–£300,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary
Grant-making is its main activity

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation awarded millions more in grants last year civilsociety.co.uk · 24/11/2023

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: GSTC HEALTH INNOVATIONS LIMITED Companies House 06852696
Trading subsidiary: GSTC PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Companies House 06861110
Trading subsidiary: GSTC PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LIMITED Companies House 07369879
Registered company of the charity Companies House 09341980

GSTC HEALTH INNOVATIONS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Turnover: £3k
Profit before tax: £-758k
Related party transactions with parent charity exempted from disclosure

GSTC PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Turnover: £215k
Profit before tax: £27.0m
Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £15.2m
Amounts due from parent undertaking: £238,655

“Gift Aid distributed to parent charity : : (15,185,056) (15,185,056)”

GSTC PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Profit before tax: £-58k
Administrative expenses (auditor's remuneration) of £3,700 were borne by the parent undertaking.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Guy's & St. Thomas' Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Susanne Given — Chair (source)
Peter Babudu — Executive Director of Impact on Urban Health (source)
David Bennett — Chair of the Investment Committee (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.

MCHUGH, Kirsty Ellen — director, appointed 09/03/2026on trustee list
SITU, Johnson — director, appointed 09/03/2026on trustee list
PALCA, Julia Charlotte — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
THOMAS, Pamela Patricia — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
LEE, Andrew Philip, Mr. — director, appointed 12/10/2023on trustee list
BENNETT, David James — director, appointed 12/10/2023on trustee list
GIVEN, Susanne Johanne — director, appointed 21/10/2021on trustee list
SRISKANDARAJAH, Dhananjayan Sivaguru — director, appointed 08/04/2020on trustee list
WARD, Katherine Natasha — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
LAMY, Yasemin Saltuk — director, appointed 01/12/2018on trustee list
KERR, Ronald James, Sir — director, appointed 07/12/2016on trustee list
PECK, Hazel Ann — secretary, appointed 13/12/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

81 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (57 freehold); recorded price paid £107.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

Senior Legal Counsel — circa £78,000 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Head of Policy & Influencing — £72,000 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Senior Funding Operations Officer (12 Months FTC) — circa £40,000 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 5 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
Finance Assistant — £29,000 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 02/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£34.3m

Total spending

£82.7m

Cost of raising funds

£26.2m

Reserves (reported)

£17.7m

Employees

189

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 76.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (21/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (16/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (01/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (30/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (29/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew Lee
David Bennett
Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah · trustee of 1 other charity
Jason Coward CBE
Johnson Situ
Julia Charlotte Palca
Katherine Natasha Ward
Kirsty McHugh
Pamela Patricia Thomas
SIR RONALD JAMES KERR · trustee of 1 other charity
Steven Corbett
Yasemin Saltuk Lamy

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£34.3m	£82.7m
31/03/2024	£34.2m	£74.7m
31/03/2023	£29.1m	£72.6m
31/03/2022	£28.9m	£62.2m
31/03/2021	£28.5m	£45.7m

Common questions

Is GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Foundation remains in an exceptionally strong financial position, with free reserves of £17.7m and total net assets of £904.5m as of 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the endowment value decreased by £21.5m to £833.8m following a distribution of £53.8m to support charitable expenditure, while total staff costs increased to £15.6m. The Foundation maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION, PRISM THE GIFT FUND, CLEAN AIR FUND, ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES, THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1.0m	Health
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	FY2023	£500k	Health
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	FY2023	£500k	Health
PRISM THE GIFT FUND	FY2021	£430k	Grants to institutions/organisations
CLEAN AIR FUND	FY2021	£409k
CLEAN AIR FUND	FY2021	£409k
CLEAN AIR FUND	FY2021	£322k
CLEAN AIR FUND	FY2021	£322k
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES	FY2021	£205k	Grants to members
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£20k	Relief of sickness and illness by provision of treatment and care to patients at Evelina London Children's Hospital
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k	Relief of sickness and illness by provision of treatment and care to patients at Guy's and St Thomas Hospital
THE ADRIAN SWIRE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£10k
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES	FY2022	£5k	Grant
THE JOHN HEMINGWAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k
THE JOHN HEMINGWAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k
THE ROAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k	Relief of sickness and illness by provision of treatment and care to patients at Evelina London Children's Hospital (Guy's and St Thomas Hospital)
THE SHIRE OAK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£100
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES	FY2023	amount not stated	Grants awarded 2023

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Greater London Authority	02/03/2023	£64k	GSTT Health Inclusion Team
UK government	01/04/2021	£83k	VCSE Health and Wellbeing Fund
UK government	29/09/2020	£10k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
SSP FOUNDATION	1	£1k
THE LORD FARINGDON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL.

THE FRIENDS OF GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL income £232k
GUYS AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION income £80k
CHARITY OF THOMAS GUY income £206k
THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION income £364k
ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT income £179k
The Peggy and Mollie Thomas Charitable Trust income £37k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION	£34.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRIENDS OF GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL FY2025	£232k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GUYS AND ST THOMAS' HOSPITAL KIDNEY PATIENTS ASSOCIATION FY2025	£80k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHARITY OF THOMAS GUY FY2025	£206k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION FY2026	£364k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FY2025	£179k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

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