FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL MARSDEN, CHELSEA

Registered charity 222613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL MARSDEN, THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL, THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL MARSDEN NHS TRUST

To supplement the services provided by the Royal Marsden Hospital by contributing to the provision of facilities, refurbishments and equipment that may benefit the health, welfare or comfort of its patients, former patients, their families or staff.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITAL(S) WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND, GENERALLY TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID HOSPITAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £1,104,027 at year-end 2025, reflecting a strong financial position. The charity maintains cash reserves of £1,321,375, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of £250,000. Charitable expenditure and medical equipment provision totaled £369,321, supported by substantial fundraising income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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 the Royal Marsden Chelsea (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (39% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Richchair
• Cristiana Aragoni
• Emma Rogers
• Linda Wimble
• Marie Stacey
• Roger Robotham
• WENDY HELEN DE CAPPELL BROOKE

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE ROYAL MARSDEN CANCER CHARITY.

• THE ROYAL MARSDEN CANCER CHARITY income £42.9m
• THE FRIENDS OF THAME HOSPITAL income £364k
• FRIENDS OF CHICHESTER HOSPITALS income £351k
• FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL (WHITECHAPEL) income £56k
• THE FRIENDS OF CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL income £85k
• FRIENDS OF THE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION - DEAL income £85k

Side by side with its peers

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