UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM CHARITY

Registered charity 1165716 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Good Hope Hospital Charity, Heartlands Hospital Charity, QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM CHARITY, QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL BIRMINGHAM CHARITY, HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL CHARITY, GOOD HOPE HOSPITAL CHARITY, SOLIHULL HOSPITAL CHARITY, Solihull Hospital Charity

UHB Charity runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity, Heartland Hospital Charity, Good Hope Hospital Charity, Solihull Hospital Charity and Fisher House (for the UK's military patients). It is the official charity for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, providing things over and above that which can be provided by the NHS

Objects

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 UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · 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 total funds amounted to £15,969,000, with free unrestricted reserves of £875,900 against a target of £500,000. The charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £472,000 for the year, funded by existing reserves and investment income, while maintaining a healthy cash position and sufficient reserves to meet future obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains. 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
• 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
• 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).

• University Hospitals Birmingham Charity smoothradio.com · 11/05/2023

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — University Hospitals Birmingham Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £3.1m. 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 ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexia Louise Binns
• Amil Khan · trustee of 3 other charities
• DAVID MICHAEL MACKAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Elizabeth Woodall-Pagan
• Joanne Eales
• Keith Alan Bushnell
• MICHAEL RICHARD SEABROOK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Wilson Garbett
• William Stanley Baldwin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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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 BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY.

• BIRMINGHAM WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY income £9.0m
• Birmingham Hospice income £19.1m
• HUGHES HALL IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE income £16.7m
• HIGHBURY income £115k
• THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £158k
• ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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