BARTS CHARITY

Registered charity 212563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARTS AND THE LONDON CHARITY AND RELATED CHARITIES, BARTS AND THE LONDON CHARITY TRUSTEE AND RELATED CHARITIES, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S AND THE ROYAL LONDON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Barts Charity brings brilliant ideas, ground-breaking research and transformational healthcare to life in East London. Together with our partners we make better healthcare possible, funding brilliant ideas and ground-breaking research to transform lives. We invest in inspiring people and projects that have the greatest impact on the health and lives of local people.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THOSE CHARITABLE PURPOSES STATED IN SECTIONS 220(3) AND 220(5) OF, AND PARAGRAPH 10(1) OF SCHEDULE 4 TO, THE NHS ACT, NAMELY FOR SUCH PURPOSES RELATING TO1. HOSPITAL SERVICES (INCLUDING RESEARCH),2. THE HEALTH SERVICE INCLUDING ANY PART OF THE HEALTH SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY HOSPITAL,3. THE NHS TRUST (INCLUDING THE PURPOSES OF ANY SPECIFIC HOSPITAL OR OTHER ESTABLISHMENT OR FACILITY AT OR FROM WHICH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY THE NHS TRUST)

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity's net assets increased to £427m, exceeding its inflation-adjusted reserves target of £415m. Investment gains of £40m contributed to this growth, while charitable expenditure rose significantly to £35.4m. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient liquidity to meet obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07168381

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Barts Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fiona Miller Smith — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCDERMOTT, Ultan, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2026on trustee list
• AMEL-AZIZPOUR, Davoud — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• PRENN, Frances Chae — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• JACOBS, Ian Jeffrey, Professor — director, appointed 01/03/2025on trustee list
• PURDY, Sarah, Professor — director, appointed 01/01/2025not on trustee list
• BONNARD, Stephen John — director, appointed 30/09/2024on trustee list
• MURPHY, Jean Mary Helen — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• GODSON, Catherine, Professor — director, appointed 01/10/2019on trustee list
• HART, Ian — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• LEWIS, Richard Quentin — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• BICKLEY, Fiona Kate — secretary, appointed 15/09/2010

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £950k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~13.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 45.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Davoud Amel-Azizpour
• Dr Catherine Godson
• Dr Richard Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ultan McDermott
• Frances Prenn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Hart
• Jean Murphy
• Professor Ian Jacobs
• Professor Sarah Purdy OBE
• Stephen Bonnard

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · City Of London · Hackney · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

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.

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 BTP.

• BTP income £239k
• THE BARING FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• EAST KENT HOSPITALS CHARITY income £515k
• BARTS AND THE LONDON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £39k
• NORTH EAST LONDON COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CHARITY income £49k
• ELFT CHARITY income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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