Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Charitable Fund

Analysis

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Darwen. It was registered in March 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £40k and spending of £80k, spending 200% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £623k to £40k (-94%), an average of -50% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Charitable Fund sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include I.k. Foundation (£40k), UK Lysosomal Storage Disorder Collaborative (£40k) and The Robin and Mary Gill Charitable Trust (£40k).

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.