THE NIGHTINGALE FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1175992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Nightingale Fellowship is a grant making organisation.The Objects of the Charity are:1 The relief of full members who are in need through financial hardship, distress or ill health;2 The advancement of Education of eligible nurses and midwives whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE "OBJECTS") ARE:3.1.1 THE RELIEF OF FULL MEMBERS WHO ARE IN NEED THROUGH FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, DISTRESS OR ILL HEALTH; AND 3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF ELIGIBLE NURSES AND MIDWIVES WHETHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE; AND 3.1.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES CONNECTED WITH NURSING AND/OR MIDWIFERY AND ALL OR ANY OF THE SCHOOLS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.3.2 IN THESE ARTICLES CHARITABLE MEANS CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES PROVIDED THAT IT WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND / OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, THE SYSTEM OF LAW GOVERNING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHARITY IS THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding up and is not a going concern, with unrestricted reserves reduced to £1. Per the trustees' report, the charity's primary restricted assets, including the Benevolent Fund, are being transferred to Cavell Nurses’ Trust as part of the closure strategy.

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 "below" (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.

• 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 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Margaret Driver
• Dr Christine Mary Watson Taylor
• Dr Valerie Jane Thurtle
• Frances Jessica Streeting Mrs
• Jane Frances Patten
• Josephine Bonham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION.

• THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• THE NIGHTINGALE CANCER SUPPORT CENTRE income £710k
• FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPICE CHARITY income £4.9m
• NIGHTINGALES CHILDRENS PROJECT income £116k
• THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AID IN SICKNESS TRUST income £369k
• THE GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES TRUST income £94k

Side by side with its peers

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