The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Benevolent Fund reported income of £20k and spending of £24k, spending 117% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £25k to £20k (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Middlesex Hospital Nurses' Benevolent Fund sits at the 43rd percentile: it is larger than about 42% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 45th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Felsham Charity (£20k), United Kingdom Tea Trade Benevolent Society (£20k) and Rotary Club of Erdington Charitable Trust (£20k).

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.