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Registered charity · Eastbourne

Friends of Eastbourne Hospital

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
East Sussex
Website
www.friendsdgh.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.6m
  • 2024£2.3m£819k
  • 2023£787k£793k
Earlier years
  • 2022£793k£1.1m
  • 2021£741k£538k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO RAISE VOLUNTARY FUNDS TO PROVIDE EXTRA AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR THE PATIENTS AND STAFF OF ALL THE HOSPITALS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE EASTBOURNE HOSPITAL NHS TRUST AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO PROVIDE SUCH AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR THE PATIENTS AND STAFF OF OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH USUALLY ACCOMMODATE OR FOR THE TIME BEING ARE ACCOMMODATING PATIENTS WHO NORMALLY RESIDE IN THE AREA SERVED BY THE EASTBOURNE HOSPITAL NHS TRUST. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CONSTITUION)

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.7y median 1y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance
2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 1Education 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

14.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 25.3 in 2021

6 from 6 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
220592
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED ON 07/11/1984AS AMENDED ON 08/11/1990AS AMENDED ON 04/11/1992AS AMENDED ON 21/10/2013AS AMENDED ON 30 NOV 2016 as amended on 11 Dec 2019 as amended on 21 Nov 2019
Contact on the register
01323749503 · esh-tr.friendsdgh@nhs.net
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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