THE THACKRAY MEDICAL RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 1181361 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Thackray Medical Research Trust is responsible for delivering the objectives of the governing document including support for the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds.

Objects

3. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1 TO SUPPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MUSEUM IN OR NEAR TO LEEDS WHICH HAS AS ITS OBJECTIVE BRINGING A GREATER AWARENESS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF ADVANCES IN MEDICAL TREATMENT, SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL SUPPLY TRADES WITH SPECIAL REGARD BEING HAD TO ANY LINKS WITH NORTHERN GREAT BRITAIN AND IN PARTICULAR LEEDS AND GENERALLY TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE MEDICAL, TECHNICAL, AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND PROCEDURES;3.2 TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL SUPPLY ORGANISATIONS AND IN PARTICULAR THE JOINT MISSIONS HOSPITAL EQUIPPING BOARD (ECHO) FOR EXCEPTIONAL EXPENDITURE IN THE COURSE OF THEIR CHARITABLE WORK IN UNDER-DEVELOPED/"THIRD WORLD" COUNTRIES;3.3.TO RELIEVE AND PREVENT DISEASE AND SICKNESS IN UNDER-DEVELOPED OR THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES BY SUPPORTING, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, APPROPRIATE RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURE OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS CALCULATED TO ACHIEVE THAT AIM.3.4 TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE EVALUATION OF MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND PRODUCTS; 3.5 TO COMMISSION, FUND, AND PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECT OF HEALTH SERVICE INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND PRODUCT-RELATED MEDICAL REGULATIONS ON THE SUPPLIES OF HEALTH SERVICES AND THE BRITISH HEALTH SERVICE IN PARTICULAR;3.6 TO PROVIDE GRANTS FOR RESEARCH INTO AND PUBLICATION OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND SUPPLIES; AND/OR3.7 TO PROVIDE GRANTS FOR LECTURESHIPS AND PRIZE MONEY FOR ESSAY COMPETITIONS ON THE SUBJECTS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, VALUE FOR MONEY EVALUATION OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND MEDICAL PRODUCT HISTORY.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £844,276 due to investment losses, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £7,481,676. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and confirm the charity is able to sustain its funding levels through income. The auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Haken Lindstad Thackray
• David Stewart Tompkins
• Dr Ian Hugh Cameron · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Podesta
• Helen Jennifer Fryers · trustee of 1 other charity
• IAN MALLINSON
• JOHN CAMPBELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Barry Michael Devlin Doyle

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Calderdale · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THACKRAY MEDICAL MUSEUM COMPANY LIMITED.

• THACKRAY MEDICAL MUSEUM COMPANY LIMITED income £1.8m
• THE THROMBOSIS RESEARCH TRUST income £181k
• TORBAY MEDICAL RESEARCH FUND income £51k
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• THE TACCHI-MORRIS CENTRE income £45k

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