FRIENDS OF PICU

Registered charity 1183373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOPICU

TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF THE PATIENTS OF THE PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES (NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY).

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING AND FACILITATE THE CARE OF PATIENTS AND FAMILIES OF THE PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (PICU) AT THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON, EITHER DIRECTLY FOR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE PICU AND ITS ATTENDANT SERVICES, BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING, EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES AND SERVICES NOT ROUTINELY OR IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE IN THE REGULAR PROVISION.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £912,024, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £25,000 (four months of running costs). The charity reported a net movement in funds of £100,685, driven by increased income from donations and investment, while total expenditure remained below incoming resources.

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.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends of PICU (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Iain Donald Macintoshchair
• Clare McGill-Sharpe
• Darren Lee May
• FRANCESCA ANN MAHON
• Stephen Hyde
• Verity Saxon

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

Operates in: Devon · Dorset · Guernsey · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Jersey · Northamptonshire · Oxfordshire · Somerset · Surrey · West Sussex · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL income £85k
• FRIENDS OF PETERHOUSE income £60k
• FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £650k
• FLEET HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY FRIENDS income £30k
• FRIENDS OF THE WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL income £1.5m
• FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' CONVALESCENT SCHEME income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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