Gateshead Health National Health Service Foundation Trust Charitable Fund

Analysis

Gateshead Health National Health Service Foundation Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gateshead. It was registered in April 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Gateshead Health National Health Service Foundation Trust Charitable Fund reported income of £386k and spending of £486k, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £470k to £386k (-18%), an average of -4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 61% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gateshead Health National Health Service Foundation Trust Charitable Fund sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Fund and Other Related Charities (£386k), Iqraa Foundation (£386k) and The Healthy Living Platform (£386k).