BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1160875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCH CHARITY, BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY

We are the official charity for Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women's Hospital, raising money to provide extra benefits for patients and their families, including new equipment, education and training, and improving hospital surroundings. We also award grants for research. We are the successor charity to 1074850 and 1089035.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £11.446m in unrestricted reserves, which is £1.4m ahead of its stated policy target of £4.5m. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient cash and reserves to meet commitments for the upcoming year.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09404174

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.

• HART, Catherine — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• UNDERHILL, Kirsty Ruth — director, appointed 25/03/2025on trustee list
• GOLDER, James Nicolas — director, appointed 26/03/2024on trustee list
• HEMMINGS, Rachel Louise — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• THAKUR, Sunita — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• BRYAN, Emma Louise — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• ENGLISH, Martin William, Dr — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• KLER, Gurmit Kaur — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
• BOAZMAN, Matthew Robert — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• KIRTON, Andrew James — director, appointed 01/02/2020on trustee list
• KEOGH, Bruce Edward, Professor Sir — director, appointed 06/08/2019on trustee list
• TRITTER, Jonathan, Professor — director, appointed 01/07/2017not on trustee list
• JECKS, Keith Martin — director, appointed 24/03/2015on trustee list
• NAGRA, Amerdeep — director, appointed 24/03/2015on trustee list
• VIRK, Dalvinder — secretary, appointed 11/09/2023

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Kirton
• Catherine Hart
• Dr Martin English
• Emma Bryan
• Gurmit Kler
• James Nicolas Golder
• KEITH MARTIN JECKS
• Kirsty Ruth Underhill
• MR AMERDEEP NAGRA
• Matthew Boazman
• PROFESSOR JONATHAN TRITTER DPHIL
• Professor Sir Bruce Edward Keogh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Hemmings
• Sunita Thakur

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY.

• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY income £6.2m
• SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HEALTHCARE AND HOSPITALS CHARITY income £1.1m
• Birmingham Hospice income £19.1m
• BIRMINGHAM CITY FC FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST income £271k
• THE BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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