THE FRIENDS OF BARNET HOSPITAL

Registered charity 269602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF BARNET HOSPITALS

We raise funds, run a hospital shop and radio station (Hospital Radio Barnet) in support of Barnet Hospital, purchasing requested equipment and comforts items for patients and staff.

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE HOSPITAL. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF OBJECTS AND RULES).

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £37,672 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £813,023 to £775,351. The trustees acknowledge that the remaining reserves are substantial and sufficient to continue supplying medical equipment and facilities to Barnet Hospital. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue operational existence.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 85.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Andrew Hendersonchair
• Diane Stirling Gallagher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Seamus Patrick Kelly

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL.

• FRIENDS OF HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL income £170k
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF HORSHAM HOSPITAL income £165k
• SALISBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FUND income £3.3m
• THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS TO THE ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL income £882k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL income £237k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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