Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund

Analysis

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Doncaster. It was registered in September 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 provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £706k and spending of £1.1m, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £776k to £706k (-9.0%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 282% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund 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 92nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Temple Garden Foundation (£706k), The Martin Gallier Project (£706k) and Lady Forester Hospital Trust (£705k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 46%, investments 40% and trading 13%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £83k. Charitable activities took 65% of spending and raising funds 35%.

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.