The University College London Hospitals Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The University College London Hospitals Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03807203). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The University College London Hospitals Charitable Foundation reported income of £158k and spending of £224k, spending 141% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £270k to £158k (-42%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 147% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The University College London Hospitals Charitable Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include International Health Development Foundation (£158k), The J Reginald Corah Foundation Fund (£158k) and The Recovery Foundation (£158k).

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.