LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL HOSPITAL

Registered charity 257130 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF CUCKFIELD AND MID-SUSSEX HOSPITALS, THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF CUCKFIELD HOSPITAL

The charity runs a shop in the Princess Royal Hospital Haywards Heath and raises funds with other activities such as Golf days /street collections

Objects

A) TO SUPPLEMENT THE SERVICE OF THE HOSPITAL FOR THE HEALTH, WELFARE AND COMFORT OF THE PATIENTS THEREIN BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT WHICH MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THE TREATMENT OF SUCH PATIENTS, OR, FOR THE RUNNING OF THE HOSPITAL AND; B) TO PROVIDE, OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF, AMENITIES IN THE HOSPITAL FOR PATIENTS AND STAFF, INCLUDING THE PROVISION AND OPERATION OF HOSPITAL SHOPS. TO ASSIST FORMER PATIENTS OF THE 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £303,356, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £75,000. The charity reported a net expenditure of £125,491 for the year, primarily driven by £330,251 spent on new hospital amenities, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £468,901 to £343,410.

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 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 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
• 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)

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 — league of friends of princess royal hospital haywards heath (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STALEY FOX
• Andrew Surawy
• Dr Michael Lavelle
• Matthew Neil Temple-Smith
• Maura Dorrington
• Mercedes Madden
• Michael West-Eacott
• Nicola Stephanie Mary Cook
• Paul Goldfinch
• Susan Harding
• Terence Edward Dorrington
• caroline foster · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF WARRINGTON HOSPITALS.

• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF WARRINGTON HOSPITALS income £9k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL COSHAM, PORTSMOUTH income £75k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL UNITED HOSPITALS (BATH) income £1.7m
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL income £237k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF ROMSEY HOSPITAL income £61k
• THE HAWKHURST COMMUNITY HOSPITAL LEAGUE OF FRIENDS income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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