UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL & WESTON CHARITY

Registered charity 1170973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABOVE & BEYOND, Bristol & Weston Hospitals Charity

The charity raises funds for Bristol city centre & Weston-super-Mare hospitals. It is the official charity partner for: Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Haematology & Oncology Centre, Bristol Dental Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, Weston General Hospital, South Bristol Community Hospital & Central Health Clinic.

Objects

THE CHARITYÆS OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO: 4.1 ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES RELATING TO THE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH IT;4.2 THE GENERAL OR SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; AND4.3 THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £3.7m and total expenditure of £4.4m for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net decrease in funds. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £1.38m, which is £60k below the trustees' stated target of six months' core operating costs plus other specific requirements. The accounts state that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: EDUCATION CENTRE MANAGEMENT LIMITED Companies House 04026846
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10394287

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katie Walker — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jen Davies — Director of Finance & Operations (source)
• Sarah Pryer — Director of Fundraising & Marketing (source)
• Professor David Wynick — Chair of Trustees (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.

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.

• HOWELLS, Glyn Martyn — director, appointed 29/06/2026on trustee list
• DODDS, Sarah Elizabeth Adamson — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• FITZGERALD, Victoria Ann — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• RAZDAN, Rajnish — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• MUKHERJEE, Bishrut — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• OAKLAND, Jane Caroline — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• BREEZE, Benjamin George — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• WYNICK, David — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• LEIRA, Carlos — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• RICE, Terence Owen Anthony — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• TITLEY, Clare Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• CAMPLING, Stephen — director, appointed 31/05/2019on trustee list
• PALMER, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/05/2019on trustee list
• ASTON, Lee — director, appointed 27/07/2018on trustee list
• FOX, James Robert — director, appointed 19/01/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 44.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Wynickchair
• Benjamin George Breeze
• Bishrut Mukherjee
• Carlos Leira
• Clare Elizabeth Titley
• Glyn Howells
• JAMES ROBERT FOX MA HONS
• Jane Caroline Oakland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Elizabeth Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lee Aston
• Rajnish Razdan
• Sarah Dodds
• Stephen Campling
• Terence Owen Anthony Rice
• Victoria Fitzgerald

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• FRIENDS OF BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL income £215k
• BRISTOL ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY income £446k
• BRISTOL CITY OF SANCTUARY income £180k
• EASTSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.0m
• THE GUILD OF FRIENDS OF THE BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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