ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1171195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St George's Hospital Charity was formerly registered under the same name but with charity registration number 241527.The purpose of St George's Hospital Charity is to support St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its delivery of care to patients at St George's and Queen Mary's Hospital and in the wider Merton and Wandsworth communities.

Objects

(A) 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;(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 HEALTH CARE, INCLUDING BY ENGAGING IN AND SUPPORTING HEALTH-RELATED RESEARCH (AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS) INCLUDING AT ST GEORGE'S, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

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: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £11.1 million, with free unrestricted reserves of £1.4 million, which is below the stated policy target of £1.6 million. The charity reported a net expenditure of £0.7 million for the year, funded by income of £3.0 million and investment gains, while maintaining a robust risk management strategy to ensure financial stability.

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: ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL TRADING LIMITED Companies House 03481144
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10565339

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St George's Hospital Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David J Meek — Chair (source)
• Davina Metters — Director of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Pascale Nicholls — Director of Finance (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.

• SIMMONS, Alison Elizabeth Wallace, Dr — director, appointed 04/09/2026on trustee list
• NIGHTINGALE, Gwen Alexandra — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• MEEK, David Jeffrey — director, appointed 30/03/2026on trustee list
• MCKENZIE, Paul Martin — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• DAVE, Pankaj Shashikant — director, appointed 01/02/2025on trustee list
• MACALLAN, Derek, Professor — director, appointed 01/12/2024on trustee list
• HUDSON, Suzanne Leigh — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• UPADHYA, Rachna, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• GREENSPAN, Georgina — director, appointed 01/06/2021on trustee list
• DENT, Renuka Priyadharshini Jeyarajah — director, appointed 01/06/2021on trustee list
• WILTON, Sarah Margaret — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~37.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 45.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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 (07/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Jeffrey Meekchair
• Dr Alison Elizabeth Wallace Simmons
• Dr Rachna Upadhya
• Georgina Greenspan
• Gwen Alexandra Nightingale
• Ms Sarah Margaret Wilton
• Pankaj Shashikant Dave
• Paul Martin McKenzie
• Professor Derek Macallan
• Renuka Dent
• Suzanne Leigh Hudson

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

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

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 FRIENDS OF ST GEORGES HOSPITAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF ST GEORGES HOSPITAL income £129k
• ST GEORGE THE MARTYR CHARITY income £71k
• KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL CHARITY income £5.1m
• THE WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £805k
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £33k
• GEORGE FEARN TRUST income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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