ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 207275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q47497603 · 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

Objects

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

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

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 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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
• Chuka Nwokolo
• Dr John Holden
• Dr Lombe Caroline Simpungwe
• Dr Rachael Liebmann OBE
• Dr Rebecca Salter
• Dr Zoe Barron
• Juliet Oliver
• 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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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 ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE.

• THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE income £13.7m
• MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £3.7m
• MEDIC TO MEDIC income £157k
• MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k
• THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS income £53.7m
• MS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £46k

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