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NORFOLK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2024/2025

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CONTENTS

4 COMMITTEE CHAIR WELCOME KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR 5 WHAT WE AIM TO DO: OUR OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES 6 WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED 7-11 HOW WE FUNDED OUR WORK 12-14 WHAT WE PLAN TO DO WITH DONATIONS: OUR FUTURE PLANS 15 HOW WE MANAGE OUR MONEY 16-18 HOW WE ORGANISE OUR AFFAIRS[19-22] 23 RISK ANALYSIS WIDER NETWORKS 24

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEE REPRESENTATION INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONTACT INFORMATION

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MESSAGE FROM

OUR CHAIR

Your donations made this work possible, and your future donations are the key to our continued success.

This is my second report as Chair of the charitable funds committee, and I would like to thank everyone who has donated gifts or money this year as well as our staff who have worked so hard over the last two years.

Welcome to our annual report for 2024/25.

We are a registered charity that works for the benefit of NHS patients and their families from Norfolk and the surrounding area. We work closely with all the NHS bodies in the area, not just our corporate trustee.

We will continue to focus on helping the population of Norfolk to live fulfilling and healthy lives. If you would like to get involved, details about how to do this are at the end of this report. Please support us, every £ counts.

We exist to provide resources and facilities to meet the needs of our NHS partners’ patients and their families.

John Kennedy

(Non-Executive Director) 30 June 2025

Our year at a glance

Funding grants 78 provided

Income £195,000

Expenditure £274,000

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR YEAR ,

Working in collaboration with the Friends of Kelling Hospital on a jointly funded project to install screens to Pineheath Ward. This investment of £52,000 has

transformed the ward environment into a more calming, clean and welcoming space for patients, visitors and staff.

Receiving a restricted grant from Dereham Town Council to fund dementia friendly clocks on Foxley Ward at Dereham Hospital to support patients living with dementia who are receiving inpatient treatment.

Supporting the delivery of a new Enhanced Services Team by funding resources for therapy treatment across multi-Trust sites.

Creation of a new website to engage with supporters and demonstrate the impact of donations to inspire and motivate support for the charity.

·Financial support for a research project at Caroline House into managing expectations of patient families during patient recovery

Increased income through event participation by taking part in Inflatable 5k race

with over 25 staff members taking part and raising over £3,000. Pictured: NCH&C Staff taking a break in the charity funded Mulberry Gardens

Working in partnership with Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust in the delivery of a new £13.m facility – The Willow Therapy Unit.

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WHAT WE AIM TO DO: OUR OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES

WHO WE ARE

Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C) NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a registered charity (registered number 1071153). We exist to raise funds and receive donations for the benefit of the NHS. By securing donations, legacies, and sponsorship, NCH&C Charitable Fund can provide the ‘icing on the cake’ to make a real difference for patients, their families and the staff who look after them.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is an outstanding provider of community healthcare and our key partner in fulfilling our charitable aims. NCH&C NHS Trust provides both general and specialist care for over 900,000 patients each year. NCH&C NHS Trust provides district nursing and health visiting to the residents of Norfolk as well as the patients of several community hospitals.

OUR MISSION

By raising new money and careful management of our existing funds, NCH&C NHS Trust Charitable Fund provides a public benefit by making grants to NCH&C NHS Trust and the other organisations it works with in order to:

‘serve the population of Norfolk by funding facilities, equipment and research and to support associated healthcare and complementary services for patients of the NHS in Norfolk.’

Grants are made in accordance with charity law, our constitution and the wishes and directions of donors. In making grants, we endeavour to reflect the wishes of patients and staff by directing funds towards areas they tell us are most in need. During the year 2024/25, grants totalling £106k were made. When considering where to focus our attention our corporate trustee’s board and, particularly, the members of the charitable funds committee have regard to the Charity Commission for England and Wales’s guidance on public benefit and what this means for NCH&C NHS Trust Charitable Fund.

Our plans are to continue to increase our level of fundraising to achieve our target of £292k a year which will help us work with our NHS partners to improve the health prospects for patients in our community.

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WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED

Our key aim is to serve the NHS patients of NCH&C NHS Trust for the public benefit.

By funding activities, equipment and services, we help the NHS body we work with provide care to their patients which goes beyond that which they are funded by the state to provide. Our role is not to replace or subsidise NHS healthcare, but to complement it.

By working with the NHS, we aim to enhance the patient experience for people irrespective of their ethnicity, beliefs, or personal or family circumstances. We put this aim into practice by helping the patients, their families and carers, and visitors to the hospital by:

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enhancing the care NCH&C NHS Trust
can offer through new equipment, activities
and building improvements
supporting staff wellbeing and
welfare initiatives delivered by
NCH&C NHS Trust.
providing direct support to patients in
their own home by way of information,
support and equipment
investment in the people who work in
the NHS to create a caring environment
for the patients receiving care
Putting patients first... funding medical research to understand
how health conditions affect patients and
delivering outputs to improve treatment
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We do this through a range of programmes funded by your donations, legacies and grants. Highlights from the main programmes undertaken in the year are detailed over the next few pages to give you a wider understanding of the difference we can make together to lives today and in the future.

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INVESTING IN PATIENT ENVIRONMENTS

Transforming Patient Experience with Silentia Screens at Kelling Hospital.

Thanks to a generous donation from a legacy gift and the Friends of Kelling Hospital, a significant upgrade costing over £50,000 has been made to Pineheath inpatient ward with the installation of Silentia privacy screens.

These innovative screens replace traditional fabric curtains, offering a flexible and modern solution that enhances both patient privacy and infection control unlike curtains, the screens are easy to clean and reduce the risk of cross-contamination – a crucial improvement in maintaining a safe healthcare environment.

The new layout also helps patients feel less hidden and confined. The light, airy design of the screens allows for more natural light to flow through the ward, creating a more open and calming atmosphere. Staff have reported that the flexibility of the screens improves day-to-day care by making it easier to adapt spaces for different needs.

This project has not only improved the functionality of the ward but has had a real impact on patient comfort and wellbeing. They are easy to keep clean which has had a big impact on reducing infections on the ward. We are incredibly grateful to the Friends of Kelling Hospital and the thoughtful legacy gift that made this transformation possible.

Kelling Hospital Ward Manager, Susan Garside.

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SUPPORTING PATIENT INTERVENTIONS

Case Stuldy: Enhanced Support Team patient interventions project.

Charitable Funds were asked to financially support the development of the Enhanced Support Team, a new structure within the NCH&C NHS Trust established at the end of 2024. The team supports the care of patients who require enhanced observation, for a variety of health conditions and behaviours, to prevent harm to themselves and/or others.

A vital part of the role is to use meaningful activity-based interventions to apply distraction and promote social interaction, consequently reducing unwanted behaviours. The financial support received from Charitable Funds was used to purchase activity tools which were then divided between all staff members. The activity tools are used during each shift supporting the interactions with patients.

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THE GREATEST BENEFITS FOR THE
PATIENTS ARE:·
THE LEVEL OF
SUPPORT TAILORED
TO PATIENT’S
INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
AN INCREASE IN
ACTIVITY AND SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS.
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“We are grateful to the funding from charity donations, as
we did not have the budget within the NHS to fund these
additional items that have delivered so many benefits in a
short space of time.”
Anita Strowger, Enhanced Support Team Lead
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FUNDING INNOVATIVE PATIENT RESEARCH

Case Study: Research project to improve support for families after brain Injury.

Charitable funding of £1,000 has enabled vital research at Caroline House, exploring how healthcare professionals work with families of people with complex brain injuries - especially when their expectations of recovery differ. This issue can cause significant distress for both families and staff, directly affecting patient care.

The money has enabled the analysis and second part of this study; results of interviews with Caroline House staff, ready for publication. The research shows several areas of modifiable improvement that we could make as a service to better support families and patients. These ideas will be taken forward by the management team at Caroline House once the results are confirmed.

The money has enabled me to extend my research, which is looking at how healthcare professionals work with families of people with complex brain injuries when their expectations of recovery differ. The funding will also support a future doctorate application to test these improvements further and embed long-term change.

Jessica Blake, Specialist Neurological Occupational Therapist

With support, the researcher has completed the second phase of their study, analysing staff interviews and identifying key areas where services could improve communication and emotional support. These findings will be shared with Caroline House management to help shape better support for families and patients.

The funding will also support a future doctorate application to test these improvements further and embed long-term change.

The paper was published by a peer-reviewed journals and articles site in 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699052.2025.2450603

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DELIVERING ENHANCED STAFF TRAINING

CASE STUDY: Bariatric Empathy Suit training resource

The charity funded a Bariatric Simulation Suit for the NCH&C Staff Experience team, which is made to educate and create a better understanding of the abilities and restrictions of a bariatric patient. Below is feedback from the Lianne Mason, Moving and Handling and Mandatory Training Lead:

We spent some time discussing body shapes (somatotypes) and how this can impact normal movement patterns and affect handling of patients. We then gave delegates the opportunity to wear the empathy suit. There was a focus throughout on the patient experience and how small changes that staff can make can improve their experience.

When laying flat on a bed, the body shape can result in the person feeling like they are tipping head down even though the bed itself is flat. By engaging the patient and asking when they felt flat we were able to position them in a way that they were more comfortable and aligned. This can be hard to explain or understand through verbal description only and all delegates really felt the impact of this when in the suit.

The photos show one of our delegates before and after the adjustments to the bed. The pink dots show how the bottom pushes the hips upwards and results in the head down feeling and overarching of the back that the delegates experienced.

‘Better understanding on how a patient who is bariatric feels and how we can help with small adjustments’

‘It has been really eye opening. Consider how patients feel when moving, impact on confidence and movement’

‘A really useful informative and interactive session’

‘key learning point: How the different body shapes impact transfers’

‘key learning point: Patient experience - educate staff, ensure time for sessions’ ‘”Very insightful“

We also emphasised the impact on vision and visual field, both when walking and in bed. Delegates experienced how the difficulty seeing other people when they were in bed did cause them to disengage with the conversation and how noticeable it was when the bed was adjusted and staff repositioned, they felt more included in the discussion.

Also the need for more reassurance when mobilising and when rolling in bed as anxiety of falling was increased – by the staff members describing positioning and taking time this provided reassurance to the person in the suit.

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HOW WE FUNDED OUR WORK: OUR ACHIEVEMENTS & PERFORMANCE

The following figures are taken from the full accounts approved on 30 June 2025; if more details are required, please refer to the full accounts. This part of the trustee’s annual report comments on key features of those accounts. In this section we firstly explain how we raised the money and then how we spent it.

MONEY RECEIVED AND MONEY SPENT

NCH&C Charitable Fund can only continue to support the work Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust for as long as we receive the money needed. Most of our income comes from the voluntary efforts of the general public.

INCOME: £195K

This year we spent £79,000 more than we received in income as part of a planned overspend to expend historical donations.

EXPENDITURE £274K

OUR FUNDRAISING PRACTICES

Members of NCH&C Charitable Fund team organise fundraising events and co-ordinate the activities of our supporters both on site and in the wider community on behalf of NCH&C NHS Trust. We do not use professional fundraisers or involve commercial participators. There have been no complaints about fundraising activity this year.

The Fundraising Regulator is the independent regulator of charitable fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and we are a member of that organisation. Fundraising Regulator publishes the Code of Fundraising Practice that sets the standards that apply to fundraising carried out by all charities and third-party fundraisers in the UK.

The charity development and project manager is a member of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and the charity follows the Fundraising Regulator’s Code of Fundraising Practice. All fundraising guidance and working practices are compliant with that code.

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MONEY RECEIVED: OUR SOURCE OF FUNDS

The chart below shows our main sources of income over the past four years.

Our largest source of income continues to be gifts and donations from the public, either direct or through corporate giving. Grant income has reduced this year. Income from fundraising is almost at prepandemic levels.

The public continue to be our main supporters. However, donations from grateful patients are falling, partly due to the cost-of-living crisis. The Charity is looking at increasing the ways that people can give. In particular, we are trying to increase the ways that people can give electronically.

We continue to be grateful to our League of Hospital Friends groups at Swaffham and Kelling Hospital who provide grants to fund specific activities. They act as local ambassadors and galvanise their local community to support their own hospital.

OUR FUNDRAISING PERFORMANCE

During the year the total donations, legacies and income from fundraising (shown as charitable activities activities in the statement of financial activities) came to £180,000 against a target of £325,000. Our fundraising income is almost back to pre-pandemic levels, but we are still affected by the cost-of-living crisis. We continue exploring new ways of fundraising including applying for grants from organisations other than NHS Charities Together.

We benchmark our fundraising activity with our peers through the NHS Charities Together financial comparison exercise. This data demonstrates that the charity is performing within the top half of its peers of mental and community health NHS Trust charities in terms of income and spending its’ funds on patient and staff expenditure as per our responsibility to generous donors. NCH&C CHARITABLE FUND ANNUAL REPORT 24/25

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MONEY SPENT: WHAT WE USED FUNDS FOR

The chart below shows our expenditure over the past four years.

We are a grant making charity – mostly we give grants to our NHS body, but we also give smaller grants to other service providers where that meets our charitable objectives.

Every year, we designate a fund to support the wellbeing and staff engagement activities of the Trust as well as a small training and research budget to support additional projects to benefit patients.

We have increased the amount of spending in patient homes across Norfolk working closely with the community nursing teams to understand the challenges. We have continued to fund equipment and activities that will support the treatment, care and dignity of patients receiving treatment in their own homes.

PEFORMANCE AGAINST OBJECTIVES

Spending the money is only part of the story because we are committed to ensuring value for money. To achieve this, applications for general fund grants include questions about the objectives, impact, and success criteria for the proposed project.

The charity undertakes an annual survey of all grants awarded over £5,000 and a sample of smaller grants to establish the extent to which the intended benefits have been realised. We ask the applicant what the outcome of the grant was both in terms of how the money was spent and what the impact was to the medical care and treatment of patients. This information not only informs future grant making policy but also provides a basis for assessing our performance.

We also ask fund advisors who have spent more than £5,000 in the year to provide a brief report on what they spent the money on and the difference it made to the medical care and treatment of patients.

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WHAT WE PLAN TO DO WITH YOUR DONATIONS: OUR FUTURE PLANS

We will achieve our mission by working with the NHS to develop the facilities to treat the patients of tomorrow and have established a development fund to further that purpose. To identify enhanced treatments , we actively seek to assist in equipping NHS staff with the skills they need and provide financial support to our research partners in their important work. Our open invitation to the readers of our annual report and accounts is to join with us in our important mission by making a gift.

Our detailed plans are to:

Your support makes these plans possible and to help us please do consider makin a donation. g

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HOW WE MANAGE OUR MONEY:

OUR GRANT MAKING POLICY

NCH&C Charitable Fund makes grants from both its unrestricted and restricted funds. The grants from restricted funds must be used in accordance with the conditions attached to the donation. Within the unrestricted funds, grants are made from general funds, designated (earmarked) funds and designated research funds:

general funds are received by NCH&C Charitable Fund with no particular preference expressed by donors. These funds are used to target projects in areas of the Trust that do not have available designated funds to assist them.

designated funds are established for a particular location or activity nominated by the donor. They are overseen by the charity and fund advisors who recommend how to spend the money within the designated area.

endowment fund cannot be spent but produces an income credited to a separate fund to promote the preservation of health and recovery of patients and former patients of Swaffham Hospital.

The charitable funds committee decides which, if any, projects to fund based an assessment of quality, value for money and how well they match the objects of the charity.

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RESERVES POLICY

The charitable funds committee has established a reserves policy as part of its plans to provide long term support to NCH&C Trust. The committee calculate the reserves as unrestricted income funds that is freely available after taking account of designated funds that have been earmarked for specific projects.

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The charitable funds committee intends that designated funds are spent within a reasonable period of receipt and therefore expects to only maintain reserves sufficient to provide certainty of funding for financial commitments and continuity for grant making.

Therefore, the target range for reserves is £30k-£100k to ensure the charity can continue to operate in a no-income scenario. The reserves held are currently within our target range and we plan to increase the unrestricted funding by implementing a fundraising strategy in 2025/26.

The charitable funds committee expects that designated funds will be spent within three years. It therefore regularly reviews the balances held in designated funds against this benchmark unless it has been agreed that a different period is more appropriate based on the reason for the designation. Where the fund has not been spent within three years, the charitable funds committee will determine whether the fund is likely to be committed soon and the extent to which there is a continuing need for the particular designated fund(s).

Where it is decided that the designation is no longer necessary or the designated fund has been inactive for more than five years, the funds are closed and transferred to general unrestricted reserves.

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ABOUT OUR INVESTMENTS

The charity invests the majority of its money, which are managed by Barratt & Cooke with the objective to maximise the income receivable whilst allowing a degree of capital growth.

Since these funds represent unrestricted income funds including reserves, the emphasis is on maintaining a high level of liquidity and a low to moderate investment risk. The governing documents allows the trustee to invest in a wide range of shares and investments, provided they are not speculative.

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The portfolio is structured to permit a range of investments intended to yield a competitive rate of return in difficult market conditions and part of the portfolio is invested in hedge funds. In addition, the charitable funds committee has decided not to invest in tobacco securities or fossil fuels because of the proven links between smoking, pollution and poor health which would make such investments contrary to our charitable aims.

Investment performance is monitored by the charitable funds committee by reviewing regular reports from the investment managers.

The movement in the stock market affects the value of our investments. This year we have an unrealised loss. This makes little difference to the day- to-day running of the charity until the point that we have to sell our investments and realise the gain or loss.

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HOW WE ORGANISE OUR AFFAIRS: REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

THE CHARITY

The Norfolk Community Health and Care (NCH&C) NHS Trust Charitable Fund are registered with the Charity Commission under the single Registered Number 1051173. Its objects are ‘for any charitable purpose or purposes relating to the National Health Service.’

TRUSTEE ARRANGEMENTS

NCH&C NHS Trust is the sole corporate trustee of the charity. The corporate trustee’s responsibilities are therefore carried out by its board of directors. The board is appointed in accordance with the Trust constitution. Details of NCH&C board membership can be found in its annual report and accounts and website.

As NCH&C Charitable Fund has a corporate trustee it is, in accounting terms, controlled by Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and is therefore its subsidiary. Financially, the charity is not material to NCH&C, so it is not consolidated into the Trust’s accounts.

NCH&C’s board meet annually as corporate trustee to:

The board of directors of Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust delegate responsibility for the day-to-day management of the NCH&C Charitable Fund to the charitable funds committee and the trust fund director in accordance with the scheme of delegation and standing financial instructions.

Together, they are responsible for fulfilling the corporate trustee’s strategic plan and for working with the professional advisors and with the representatives of NCH&C and NCH&C Charitable Fund who provide the financial services to the charities.

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NCH&C CHARITABLE FUND COMMITTEE

The charitable funds committee comprises two executive members of the board and two non-executive members. Other members of NCH&C staff are invited to attend committee meetings but do not have a vote at those meetings.

Name and Date appointed/resigned and job title.

John Kennedy from January 2024.

Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Charitable Funds committee.

Lynda Thomas from February 2023.

Non-Executive Director and Group Chair.

Rachel Hawkins from 1st April 2025.

Group Director of Corporate Affairs.

Angela Moodie from 21st July 2025.

Group Chief Finance and Resources Officer.

Andrew Hopkins from April 2016 to 11 September 2025. Finance Director.

Dr Sue Crossman from April 2024 to April 2025.

Non-executive Director.

Carolyn Fowler From November 2019 to 4 July 2025. Director of Nursing.

Members of the charitable funds committee are selected to give the charity a good mix of appropriate professional skills – for example, medical, finance, investment and fundraising.

New members of the charitable funds committee are provided with an induction pack consisting of the governing documents, previous three years trustee’s annual reports and accounts, policies and procedures of the Charity as well as the HFMA’s Practical guide: NHS charitable funds and the Charity Commission for England and Wales’s guidance public benefit: running a charity.

Appropriate training courses are offered in charity law and administration, and the roles and responsibilities of trustees. The charity’s auditors and solicitors provide useful material, and NHS Charities Together runs regular conferences for trustees.

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OUR STAFF AND ADVISORS

NCH&C Charitable Fund has two full time staff, Mrs Carol Plunkett is the charity development and project manager and Mrs Tracy Harvey is the charity administrator and finance officer. Kerry Brind was the charity fundraising and marketing office who left in November 2024 after a one year contract. The charity has plans to recruit a substantive replacement post in 2025/26.

Members of the charitable funds committee are not trustees in their own right, but act on behalf of the corporate trustee.

The charitable funds committee is also assisted by a number of professional advisors, as detailed below:

Bankers :

Bankers : Investment Managers: Barclays Business Banking Barratt & Cooke Ltd 3 St James Court 5-6 Opie Street Whitefriars Norwich Norwich Norfolk NR3 1RJ NR1 3DW

Independent examiners: Legal advisors: Larking Gowen LLP Mills & Reeve 1st Floor Prospect House 1 St. James Court Rouen Road Whitefriars Norwich Norwich NR1 1RE NR3 1RU

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KEY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL REMUNERATION

The board of the corporate trustee and the Director of Finance comprise the key management personnel of the charity as they are in charge of:

DIRECTING AND CONTROLLING THE CHARITY

RUNNING AND OPERATING THE CHARITY ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS

None of the Board members are specifically paid for the work they do for the NCH&C Charitable Fund. The Charitable Fund reimburses the corporate trustee for hours worked by the Director of Finance and Performance on Charitable Fund business.

Members of NCH&C’s board are required to disclose all relevant interests and register them with the trust fund director and withdraw from decisions where a conflict of interest arises. All related party transactions are disclosed in note 8 to the accounts.

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RISK ANALYSIS

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As part of the business planning exercise carried out during the year, the charitable funds committee has considered the major risks to which NCH&C is exposed. They have reviewed systems and identified steps to mitigate those risks.

Three major risks have been identified and arrangements have been put in place to mitigate those risks.

FUTURE LEVELS OF INCOME

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NCH&C Charitable Fund is reliant on donations to allow it to make grants to NHS bodies. If income falls, then the charity would not be able to make as many grants or enter into longer term commitments with the NHS bodies it supports.

The committee mitigates the risk that income will fall by engaging in fundraising activities. We ensure that any funds are raised in full compliance with fundraising regulation.

NHS waiting times for treatment are getting longer – this is partly due to the impact of the pandemic, but demand also continues to rise. There is a risk that the public’s goodwill for the NHS will reduce making fundraising more difficult.

The cost of living remains a significant pressure on many people’s lives. This is continuing to have an impact on the amount that people are able to donate to charity and is being closely monitored.

FALL IN INVESTMENT RETURNS

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NCH&C Charitable Fund generates additional income from investing its cash balances so the committee considers the loss of investment income to be a major financial risk. The risk is mitigated by retaining expert investment managers, having a diversified investment portfolio and regularly reviewing that portfolio. The committee makes use of benchmarking information when reviewing the portfolio.

UNFORESEEN CHANGES IN THE OPERATION OF NHS

The NHS is, by its very nature, subject to national changes in government policy as well as local politically driven decisions. The charitable funds committee has identified this as a risk as it may mean initiatives or healthcare activities supported by NCH&C Charitable Fund are no longer delivered in the Norfolk area. The committee regularly liaises with NHS partners to understand the changes that they are facing at an early stage.

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WIDER NETWORKS

NCH&C Charitable Fund is one of over 400 NHS linked charities in England and Wales who are eligible to join NHS Charities Together. As a member charity, we can discuss matters of common concern and exchange information and experiences, join together with others to lobby government departments and others, and to participate in conferences and seminars which offer support and education for our staff and members of the charitable funds committee.

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY

The ability of NCH&C Charitable Fund to continue its important support for the NHS in Norfolk is dependent on its ability to raise funds from the general public. NCH&C Charitable Fund continues to forge strong relationships with members of NHS staff without whose co-operation, the ability to make an effective contribution would be much diminished.

VOLUNTEERS

On behalf of the trustee body, the charitable funds committee would like to pay tribute to:

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITIES

The law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the Trustee to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the charity’s financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the Trustee should follow best practice and:

The Trustee is also responsible for keeping accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the charity, and which enable them to ascertain the financial position of the charity, and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations and the provisions of the Trust Deed. The Trustee is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustee confirms it has met the responsibilities set out above and complied with the requirements for preparing the accounts on a going concern basis. The financial statements and notes to the accounts set out on pages 27 to 39 attached have been compiled from and are in accordance with the financial records maintained by the Trustee.

By Order of the Trustee

Angela Moodie Date: 23/12/2025

Group Chief Finance and Resources Officer on behalf of the Corporate Trustee.

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John Kennedy Date: 23/12/2025

Chair of the Charitable Funds Committee on behalf of the Corporate Trustee.

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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CONTACT US

The charity office and principal address of Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Charitable Fund is:

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Charitable Fund Woodlands House, Norwich Community Hospital, Bowthorpe Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3TU Email: charitablefund@nchc.nhs.uk

The corporate trustee, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust’s principal address is: The Chief Executive

Norwich Community Hospital, Woodlands House, Bowthorpe Road, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 3TU Email: chief.exec@nchc.nhs.uk

https://www.norfolkcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk/charity-home/

@NCHC_CF @NCHCCharitableFund £)a @norfolk-community-health-care-charitable-fund charitablefund@nchc.nhs.uk