FRIENDS OF AIREDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL

Registered charity 503652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity members work within Airedale General Hospital running a shop and other activities to assist patients and visitors.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITAL WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR INFIRM AND, GENERALLY, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID 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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net income decreased to £34,709 from £43,274 in the prior year, largely due to a suspected fraud loss of £55,692. Total unrestricted and restricted funds stood at £317,785, with unrestricted reserves of £281,909. The trustees report that overheads and contingency are not committed to further expenditure other than that covered by the charity's objectives.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 73.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Dixon
• David Openshaw
• Janet Airdrie
• Janet Knockton
• Janet Turner
• Joan Godfrey
• Lee Orviss
• Susan Elizabeth Ingham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Valerie Hargreaves

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Lancashire · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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