East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Charitable Fund

Analysis

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stevenage. 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 makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £1.7m and spending of £1.5m, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £2.2m to £1.7m (-22%), an average of -5.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 106% 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 and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust Charitable Fund 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 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Donald Gordon Third Foundation (£1.7m), Mars Org. Ltd (£1.7m) and Cerebral Palsy Cymru (£1.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 75%, trading 21% and investments 4.3%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £323k. Charitable activities took 62% of spending and raising funds 23%. Reserves of £3.0m would cover about 20 months of spending at that rate.