THE FRIENDS OF THE CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL — grant history

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Latest income

£116k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£68k

Accounts grants total

£107k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Mini Grants: Email [email protected] with details. Friends Grants: Complete the online application form. Joint Grants: Complete the online application form and usually make a presentation.
Deadlines: Mini Grants: No particular deadline. Friends Grants: Not stated. Joint Grants: Applications considered on a monthly basis.
What they don’t fund: We cannot normally support research, staff training, or any payments of money to individuals.

Summarised from www.cwfriends.org.uk · www.cwfriends.org.uk/grants · www.cwfriends.org.uk/what-we-do on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Disability (1 grantee)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Birmingham City (1 grantee)
Bristol City (1 grantee)
Cardiff (1 grantee)
East Sussex (1 grantee)
Manchester City (1 grantee)
Newcastle Upon Tyne City (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Oldham (1 grantee)
Scotland (1 grantee)
Throughout London (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Day Surgery (CW)	—	£40k
new	Main Outpatients (Mid West)	—	£5k
new	Frailty Same Day Emergency Care	—	£5k
new	INTERACT STROKE SUPPORT	—	£5k
new	Therapies Department	—	£4k
new	Main Outpatients	—	£2k
new	Community Midwifery	—	£529
up	Children’s Music Therapy	£449	£1k
down	Maternity Bereavement Service	£20k	£250
not listed	Palliative Care-Butterfly Rooms	£53k	—
not listed	Best for You Project	£51k	—
not listed	Obstetric & Gynaecology	£6k	—
not listed	Cheyne Child Development Service	£4k	—
not listed	Respiratory Physiotherapy	£4k	—
not listed	John Hunter Clinic	£2k	—
not listed	Obstetric Antenatal Department (West Mid)	£2k	—
not listed	Clinical Learning and Development	£2k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Day Surgery (CW)	FY2025	£40k	Grant payable
Butterfly Volunteer Coordinator	FY2025	£6k	Grant payable
Main Outpatients (Mid West)	FY2025	£5k	Grant payable
Frailty Same Day Emergency Care	FY2025	£5k	Grant payable
Interact Stroke Support	FY2025	£5k	Grant payable
Therapies Department	FY2025	£4k	Grant payable
Main Outpatients	FY2025	£2k	Grant payable
Children’s Music Therapy	FY2025	£1k	Grant payable
Community Midwifery	FY2025	£529	Grant payable
Maternity Bereavement Service	FY2025	£250	Grant payable
Gynaecology Outpatients	FY2025	£195	Grant payable
Palliative Care-Butterfly Rooms	FY2024	£53k	furniture for four new Butterfly Rooms
Best for You Project	FY2024	£51k
Maternity Bereavement Service	FY2024	£20k
Obstetric & Gynaecology	FY2024	£6k	use of digital holograms to support patient understanding of conditions such as fibroids and endometriosis (joint grant with CW Plus)
Cheyne Child Development Service	FY2024	£4k	sensory toys and equipment used in Sleep Clinics for children with autism spectrum disorder
Respiratory Physiotherapy	FY2024	£4k
John Hunter Clinic	FY2024	£2k	two AI headsets to help manage pain and anxiety during contraceptive procedures (joint grant with CW Plus)
Obstetric Antenatal Department (West Mid)	FY2024	£2k	refurbishing the Bereavement Room (joint grant with CW Plus)
Clinical Learning and Development	FY2024	£2k
Macmillan Centre	FY2024	£668
Edgar Home Ward	FY2024	£461
Children’s Music Therapy	FY2024	£449
Gynaecology Outpatients	FY2024	£290
Labour Ward	FY2024	£246
Inpatient Pharmacy	FY2024	£49
Volunteering Department	FY2024	£0
Osterley 1 and 2 Wards	FY2024	£0
Butterfly Volunteer Coordinator	FY2024	£0
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	FY2023	£50k	post of Butterfly Volunteer Manager for one year
CW Plus	FY2023	£50k	‘Best For You’ project
CW Plus	FY2023	£6k	refurbishment of the relatives’ room on Osterley Ward at West Middlesex
Palliative Care team	FY2023	£4k	butterfly-motif bags to store the property of patients who have passed away
CW Plus	FY2023	£2k	specialist Barton wheelchair for transporting critically ill patients in intensive care
Children’s Music Therapy	FY2023	£250	three-quarter sized cello
Outpatients Department	FY2022	£2k	refurbishment of a changing room for use by hysteroscopy/biopsy patients
Interact	FY2022	£2k	reading service for stroke patients
Maternity Department	FY2022	£100	selection of eye masks and butterfly rooms for patients on the Labour and Postnatal wards
Paediatric Physiotherapy	FY2021	£62k	rental of two specialist child wheelchairs
Nell Gwynne and Rainsford Mowlem wards	FY2021	£3k	two ice machines
the training and education department	FY2021	£2k	a scoop hoist used for training on moving and handling patients
the Hand Therapy team	FY2021	£1k	a Woodcast oven for making biodegradable splints

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 67957 vs reference 107002 (36.5% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.