FRIENDS OF THE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION - DEAL

Registered charity 280568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF DEAL HOSPITAL, THE FRIENDS OF THE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION - DEAL

Supplement the hospital service by provision of equipment and facilities for the relief of present or former patients in need. Provide amenities in the hospital for patients and staff including a tea bar. Encourage and maintain public interest in the hospital and raise funds to achieve these ends.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITAL 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: DEAL

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: Dover, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £56,357 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,284,212. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £25,000. The trustees confirmed the charity is in sound financial health with adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2021 (received 28/08/2022, 29 days after the 30/07/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Friends of Deal Hospital (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DORIS JOSEPHINE THOMSONchair
• ANDREA TAYLOR COLLYER
• CLAIRE HUTCHISON
• EMMA WHITTEN
• Karen Marie Campbell
• LESLIE FRANK ALTON
• Linda Dalton
• MARGO LAING
• MARIAN EBDEN
• MARY GREENWELL MCMENAMIN
• MICHAEL KARL REMANE DYER
• PATRICIA EDE
• PATRICIA THOMSETT-JONES
• SACHA ROOK

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

Operates in: Kent

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 LINCOLN HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION.

• FRIENDS OF LINCOLN HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION income £50k
• FRIENDS OF EAST SURREY HOSPITAL income £327k
• THE FRIENDS OF THAME HOSPITAL income £364k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE NUNEATON HOSPITALS income £416k
• THE FRIENDS OF CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL income £85k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF THE HASLEMERE AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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