The King's College Hospital Nurses' League Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The King's College Hospital Nurses' League Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Exeter. It was registered in July 1970, 56 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and recreation, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, provides other finance and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The King's College Hospital Nurses' League Benevolent Fund reported income of £11k and spending of £26k, spending 246% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income fell from £43k to £11k (-75%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2023, when income rose by 140%. Over the whole period it spent 138% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The King's College Hospital Nurses' League Benevolent Fund sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 32nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Club 2000 Sports and Leisure Club for the Disabled (£11k), Damba Foundation (£11k) and Patchwork Group Riding Disabled Association (£11k).

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.