THE COMPANY OF NURSES CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1170982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting the development of the profession of nursing, including the awarding of scholarships; recognising excellence and innovation by nurses; supporting discussions and furthering the debate on matters relevant to nurses through educational and professional development; working with other organisations who share the same aims; providing benevolence to nurses and former nurses in need.

Objects

3.1. PRESERVE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ALL OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A. THE AWARDING OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS FOR NURSES IN INITIAL TRAINING AND AFTER FURTHER TRAINING AFTER QUALIFYING.B. TO RECOGNISE EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION BY NURSES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PRIZES AND AWARDS.C. TO SUPPORT MATTERS RELEVANT TO NURSE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.3.2. PREVENT FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF NURSES AND FORMER NURSES WHO ARE IN NEED AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves of £1,450,315 are held against a policy target of six months' projected annual income, which the document notes is equivalent to sufficient income to meet budgeted commitments. The charity reports total net assets of £2,294,693 and confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hilary Andrewschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Anderson JP
• Deirdre Majella Josephine Barr OStJ BEM
• FRANCES DAVIES
• Helen Teresa Pickstone
• JOHN ALLEN
• Jo Jacques
• Julia Mingay

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES TRUST.

• THE GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES TRUST income £94k
• FOUNDATION OF EUROPEAN NURSES IN DIABETES income £14k
• THE BRITISH DERMATOLOGICAL NURSING GROUP income £855k
• THE WOMEN'S ORGANISATION income £2.3m
• The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing income £1.3m
• PARISH NURSING MINISTRIES UK income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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