UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS CHARITY

Registered charity 1165398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Although our remit is NHS-wide, we primarily provide grants to UCL Hospitals. We aim to ensure that our grant-making activities promote innovation within the Hospitals and help them to operate more effectively. Our areas of support include equipment and infrastructure; staff and patient welfare and amenities and medical research.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, 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

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £24.7m, while total expenditure rose significantly to £71.5m, largely due to a £32.2m impairment provision on the Bedford Passage Development and major grants awarded. The group holds £26.3m in free reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet current and anticipated future needs, and the auditor confirmed 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 Buzzacott Audit 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
• 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

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 — University College London Hospitals Charity UK (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• UCLH Charity — “A series of animated videos funded by UCLH Charity is helping children and their families feel less anxious about dental treatment at UCLH.” (source page)
• Hasbro — “Hasbro continue to generously support us each Christmas with a fantastic delivery of Christmas toys and care packs, all wrapped and delivere…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £11.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 40.9% 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 (20/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL KEENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ADRIAN PARKHOUSE
• Dr Frances Gardiner
• Dr Junaid Bajwa
• Dr Navdeep Kumar
• James William Petit
• Professor Suneetha Ramani Moonesinghe

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.

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 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £158k
• FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS income £60k
• UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS CHARITY income £6.0m
• BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD CHARITY AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £2.3m
• KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL CHARITY income £5.1m
• MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £4.1m

Side by side with its peers

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