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.

Objects

3. OBJECTS3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) TO FURTHER ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE GENERAL OR ANY SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE FOUNDATION TRUST OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE;(B) TO PROMOTE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC; AND(C) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN MEDICINE INCLUDING BY ENGAGING IN AND SUPPORTING MEDICAL RESEARCH (AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS).

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

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

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

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.

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
• 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
• 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.

In the news

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

• Soon: Jolly Jumper Day 2022 with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital Charity brumhour.co.uk · 13/11/2022
• Support Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity Christmas Appeal with Selfridges brumhour.co.uk · 03/12/2020
• Dame Julie Walters voices Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity’s first-ever TV advert brumhour.co.uk · 23/10/2020

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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

Common questions

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

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST.

• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN'S TRUST income £271k
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY income £6.2m
• Birmingham Hospice income £19.1m
• SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HEALTHCARE AND HOSPITALS CHARITY income £1.1m
• BIRMINGHAM PLAYCARE NETWORK income £329k
• BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATION TRUST income £337k

Side by side with its peers

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