THE MEDWAY LEAGUE OF FRIENDS

Registered charity 1172065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDWAY LEAGUE OF FRIENDS

The objects of this Charitable Incorporated Organisation are the relief of sickness and the promotion of good health and wellbeing of patients of NHS services in Medway. It began operating on 1 August 2018, taking over from the Unincorporated Charity (Registered Number 240562) which carried out the same function previously.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £159,748 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £889,185 to £729,437. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains healthy cash reserves of £580,140 and unrestricted funds of £722,655. The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Janet Harsent — Chair (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)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANET HARSENTchair
• Arlene Samuel
• COLIN SILK
• Daniella Peers
• EUNICE NORMAN
• Glynis Jane McCollum
• MARION COGGER
• Martin Bell
• STEPHEN TOWSEY
• Stephen Clark · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephen Dansie

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL CIO.

• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE KENT AND CANTERBURY HOSPITAL CIO income £1.6m
• MEDWAY EDUCATION TRUST income £2.3m
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE RIPLEY HOSPITAL income £122k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS MUSGROVE PARK HOSPITAL income £1.5m
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER HOSPITAL income £164k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS, EALING HOSPITAL income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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