East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds

Analysis

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ipswich. It was registered in August 1995, 31 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 provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds reported income of £1.6m and spending of £3.1m, spending 198% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.8m to £1.6m (-44%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 102%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Funds sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alexandra Rose Charity (£1.6m), British Skin Foundation (£1.6m) and Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen Mind Ltd (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 72%, investments 19% and trading 9.0%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £283k. Charitable activities took 76% of spending and raising funds 16%. Reserves of £175k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate.