SHEFFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY

Registered charity 1169762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The core mission of the Charity is to enhance the care and treatment of patients accessing NHS services in Sheffield, by supporting high priority areas which are beyond the scope of government funding. This is achieved by funding:enhancements to patient careimprovements to the hospital environmentstaff developmentresearchequipment

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 SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, SHEFFIELD HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST AND SHEFFIELD CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST OR THE PURPOSES OF THE HEALTH SERVICE (AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 OF THE NHS ACT 2006 OR ANY STATUTORY MODIFICATION OF THAT SECTION); AND(B) TO PROMOTE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE ALL OR ANY ASPECTS OF THE HEALTH AND WELFARE 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 · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported total income of £3.33m and total expenditure of £6.06m for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £1.19m before investment gains. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £1.7m, which is above the charity's policy target of £1m. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025) to £70,000 - £80,000 (FY2026).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 4 (FY2025) → 3 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Beth Crackles — Chief Executive (source)
• Greg Van Heeswijk — Director of Fundraising (source)
• Judith Moulsdale — Director of Finance (source)
• Sam Earnshaw — Director of Brand and Communications (source)
• Shasta Ashraf — Director of Grants (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 46.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lawrence Michael Batechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Adele Sabin
• Catherine Sinclair
• Christopher Morley
• Dr Iolanthe Fowler
• Dr Sarah Molton
• James Daniel Drury
• Thomas Joseph Elliott
• Una Cunningham

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.

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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY.

• THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHARITY income £5.4m
• SHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £519k
• CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL CHARITY income £493k
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• ROYAL BERKSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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