Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund

Analysis

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Amersham. It was registered in February 1996, 30 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, acts as an umbrella or resource body and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £1.3m and spending of £1.0m, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.1m to £1.3m (+16%), an average of +3.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 467%. Over the whole period it spent 76% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 90% 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 The Just a Drop Appeal (£1.3m), Barnet Youth Zone (£1.3m) and The Drug Safety Research Trust (£1.3m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 68%, investments 30% and charitable activities 1.4%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £633k. Charitable activities took 84% of spending and raising funds 8.9%. Reserves of £1.4m would cover about 15 months of spending at that rate. It employed 5 people.