Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity

Analysis

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Preston. It was registered in December 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity reported income of £785k and spending of £830k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.5m to £785k (-47%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 140%. Over the whole period it spent 118% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Charity sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include John Huntingdon's Charity (£784k), Caravan of Mercy (£785k) and Croydon Mosque and Islamic Centre (£784k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 66%, charitable activities 21%, trading 9.9% and investments 3.3%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £32k. Charitable activities took 63% of spending and raising funds 33%. Reserves of £723k would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 5 people.

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.