THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ALDEBURGH AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

Registered charity 247890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE ALDEBURGH COTTAGE HOSPITAL

To provide those extra services and facilities for the local hospital which the NHS is either unwilling or unable to provide in order to help inpatients, outpatients and staff.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE ALDEBURGH AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (THE HOSPITAL) AND OTHER INVALIDS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT , DISABLED HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GENERALLY, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE HOSPITAL. FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT THE ABOVE OBJECT.

Area of benefit: ALDEBURGH AND DISTRICT.

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £55,938 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £660,869. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting a core operating reserve of £50,000 and a capital project fund of £350,000, both of which are currently exceeded by the actual reserves.

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 3 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nina Parkinsonchair
• Christine Marion
• Grainne Drummond
• MR TONY BONE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Michael Marion
• Richard Bodek
• Rosemary Trigg
• SUSAN DONALD
• Susan Jane Culley
• Susan Margaret Boddy

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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