ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 207275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RMBF · also registered in Scotland as SC046148 (OSCR)

2.1 The objects of the Charity are to prevent or relieve poverty and to relieve need arising from youth, age, ill health, disability and bereavement among people who are doctors or who have worked as doctors, and medical students and the dependants of such individuals

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £35.9 million at 31st March 2025, with total resources at the disposition of the charity amounting to £38.0 million. Per the trustees' report, the financial position remains healthy with net current assets of £769,964, placing the charity well to respond to increasing demand for help despite a net expenditure for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Duncan Bewchair
• Angela Attah
• Derek Bell
• Dr Lombe Caroline Simpungwe
• Dr Peter Szatmary
• Dr Rachael Liebmann OBE
• Dr Rebecca Salter
• Dr Zoe Barron
• Juliet Oliver
• Professor Greg Rubin
• Robin Banerji

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN.

• THE SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN income £256k
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS income £53.7m
• BMA CHARITIES TRUST FUND income £167k
• ROYAL DEVON UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITY income £1.9m
• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE income £13.7m
• DOCTORS IN DISTRESS income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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