Friends of Danesbury and Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital

Analysis

Friends of Danesbury and Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Welwyn. It was registered in February 1983, 43 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Friends of Danesbury and Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital reported income of £189k and spending of £206k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £116k to £189k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Friends of Danesbury and Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Plymouth Music Zone Limited (£189k), Maria Holland and St Joseph's Charity (£189k) and New Life Church (North London) (£189k).

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.