THE FRIENDS OF WOKING COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Registered charity 1178417 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FWCH, THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE WOKING COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Our principal activity is to support the patients of the Woking Community Hospital by donating funds to the Hospital. We raise these funds from subscriptions, from donations, including those from sponsored events, from legacies and from events which we organise locally.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE WOKING HOSPITAL WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GENERALLY TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID HOSPITAL. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF CONSTITUTION.

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: Woking, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £64,767 for the year ended 31 January 2026, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £277,707. Per the trustees' report, reserves are held in cash deposits with UK regulated banks, and the charity has no monetary liabilities or tangible assets other than these deposits. The filing confirms the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Asda Foundation — “The Asda Foundation – Green Giving scheme £500” (source page)
• Ecclesiastical Insurance — “Ecclesiastical Insurance “Movement for Good” £1,000” (source page)
• Barclays Bank — “Barclays Bank matching grant for June 2021 Plant Sale £1,717” (source page)
• Woking Lions Club — “Woking Lions Club £2,500” (source page)
• Rotary Club of Woking Benevolent Fund — “Rotary Club of Woking Benevolent Fund £2,000” (source page)
• C A Redfern Charitable Foundation — “C A Redfern Charitable Foundation £2,000” (source page)
• Barclays plc — “Barclays plc “pound for pound” support in each of 2016, 2017 and 2018 £750 each year” (source page)
• The ASDA Foundation — “The ASDA Foundation £500” (source page)
• The C.A. Redfern Charitable Foundation — “The C.A. Redfern Charitable Foundation, for Margaret Robinson £2,000” (source page)
• Foresters Friendly Society — “Foresters Friendly Society – Court Newark Abbey £50” (source page)
• Barclays — “Barclays “pound for pound”, for Maggie Dawes and the 2015 Plant Sale £750” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN KEITH ALLANchair
• Anne Luckham
• BARRY JOHN LUCKHAM
• Barbara Ann Hedges
• Beryl Hunwicks
• Christopher Peter Saunsbury
• Dr ANTONY CHARLES SHEPHEARD
• STEPHEN MARK MALTBY

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ROTARY CLUB OF WOKING BENEVOLENT FUND.

• ROTARY CLUB OF WOKING BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• THE WOKING COMMUNITY FURNITURE PROJECT income £170k
• WOKING HOSPICE income £9.3m
• THE FRIENDS OF THAME HOSPITAL income £364k
• THE FRIENDS OF WINCANTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL income £37k
• COMMUNITY NEEDS FOUNDATION income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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