Friends of the Yeatman Hospital

Analysis

Friends of the Yeatman Hospital is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in January 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Friends of the Yeatman Hospital reported income of £290k and spending of £312k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £87k to £290k (+234%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 356%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Friends of the Yeatman Hospital sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Peter Kershaw Trust (£290k), United Borders (£290k) and Thornton Lodge Action Group (£289k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.