East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund
Analysis
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Leonards-On-Sea. It was registered in October 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 organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.
In the financial year ending March 2025, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £225k and spending of £239k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.0m to £225k (-77%), an average of -31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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 Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Kagando (£225k), Sarwan Singh Bahra Trust (£226k) and Homelands Charitable Trust (£225k).
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.
Income and spending
Where the income comes from
- Other 100%
In the charity's own words
To support the relief of sickness in patients by the National Health Service provided by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Hastings and Rother CCG, Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG and High Weald, Lewes, Havens CCG. By promoting the efficient performance of their duties by staff, and the investigation and relief of illness, disability and suffering
Similar-sized charities, same cause
| Charity | Location | Income |
|---|---|---|
| Friends of Kagando | Hereford | £225k |
| Sarwan Singh Bahra Trust | Middlesex | £226k |
| Homelands Charitable Trust | London | £225k |
| The E H Smith Charitable Trust | Solihull | £226k |