THE HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS HEALTH CHARITY

Registered charity 1162414 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WISHH CHARITY -WORKING INDEPENDENTLY TO SUPPORT HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS

The charity's prime objective is to relieve sickness and promote and improve the health of the public. This will be achieved by raising the profile of the charity, its purpose and how through charitable endeavours monies raised can enhance the provision of health care in support of patients, their relatives and carers and health care staff

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC

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: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose significantly to £2,440k, largely due to a £1.6m donation from the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust General Purposes Charity. Total expenditure decreased to £775k, resulting in a net movement in funds of £1,633,352 and unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,755,940. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carl Wheatley — Chief Executive (source)
• Sue Lockwood — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Howdens – Withernsea branch — “A huge thank you to Howdens – Withernsea branch for putting on a family fun day to raise vital funds for WISHH. The day was a great success …” (source page)
• Great North Runners — “Thank you Great North Runners!” (source page)
• Humberside Police Federation — “Humberside Police Federation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~42.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN MARIALUISA LOCKWOODchair
• DAVID HAIRE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Deborah Adcock
• JULIAN NICHOLAS WILD · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTIN CHARLES SHERIDAN HALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Kettrick

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES.

• THE MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND RELATED CHARITIES income £1.1m
• HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE income £3.2m
• HAMPSHIRE HOSPITALS CHARITY income £821k
• HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £202k
• RAISING HEALTH income £345k
• CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND PASTORAL CARE income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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