PLYMOUTH PUBLIC DISPENSARY

Registered charity 267658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The use of the charity's income for the relief of persons in the area of benefit (the boundaries of the area of Plymouth City Council) who are sick, convalescent, disbled or infirm by relieving their suffering or assisting their recovery.

Objects

TO APPLY THE YEARLY INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SICK POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 26 OF THE SCHEME OF 18TH APRIL 1952)

Area of benefit: COUNTY BOROUGH OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH

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

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Registered contact address: Plymouth, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £87,779, which the trustees consider well in excess of their policy target of holding at least 13 months of expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of -£29,530 due to an unrealised loss on investments, but maintains a strong reserves position relative to its annual expenditure.

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 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.

• 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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JOHN MAHONYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• DOCTOR DAVID HARRY KEELING
• EDWARD CHARLES KEAST · trustee of 4 other charities
• JILLIAN SARAH HILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• MIRIAM SMITH
• Stewart Loze

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

Operates in: Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLYMOUTH CHARITY TRUST.

• PLYMOUTH CHARITY TRUST income £558k
• THE GREAT YARMOUTH RELIEF-IN-NEED TRUST income £37k
• PLYMOUTH HIGHBURY TRUST income £1.7m
• PLYMOUTH HOSPITALS GENERAL CHARITY AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £1.0m
• PLOIEST ESTATES LIMITED income £152k
• THE PUBLIC PURPOSES SHARE OF THE DARTMOUTH TRUST income £93k

Side by side with its peers

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