Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Charity

Analysis

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in February 1996, 30 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 acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Charity reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.7m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.6m to £1.3m (-52%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 50%. Over the whole period it spent 116% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Charity sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% 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 Family Holiday Charity (£1.3m), Cheshire Community Council (£1.3m) and St Margaret's House (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 69%, charitable activities 15%, investments 15% and trading 1.2%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £386k. Charitable activities took 73% of spending and raising funds 25%. Reserves of £3.1m would cover about 22 months of spending at that rate.

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.