**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON (company limited by guarantee)**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
**REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 08445068 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1152553**
**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
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|---|---|
|Report of the Trustees|2 to 5|
|Report of the Independent Examiner|6|
|Statement of Financial Activities|7|
|Balance Sheet|8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9 to 14|
**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
**REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Company number** 08445068 (England and Wales)
**Registered Charity number** 1152553
## **Registered office**
26 Bourn Avenue Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3AR
## **Trustees and directors**
L Hill A Ellis (Appointed 9 December 2024) J Choudrie L Dabbs B Mathur (Resigned 19 May 2025) K Ollivierre (Resigned 21 April 2025) I Sulevani (Appointed 8 December 2024) R Varma
**Company Secretary** Lisa Taylor
**Managing Director** Lisa Taylor
## **Accountants**
Azets Audit Services Gladstone House 77-79 High Street Egham Surrey TW20 9HY
**Bankers**
HSBC Bank plc PO Box 41 28 High Street Uxbridge UB8 1BY
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**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
The trustees who are also directors of the charitable company for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charitable company for the 16-month period ended 31 July 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
This report also constitutes a directors’ report under company law.
## **CONSTITUTION**
The charity is a charitable company limited by guarantee and was incorporated on 14 March 2013. It is also a registered charity and became registered with the Charity Commission on 21 June 2013.
The charity trades under the name Healthwatch Hillingdon.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Our vision**
Healthwatch Hillingdon aims to become the influential and effective voice of the public. We want to give adults, young people, children and communities a greater say in - and the power to challenge - how health and social care services are run in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
## **Objectives and aims for the public benefit**
The advancement of health and the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship by:
- (a) providing information and advice to the general public about local health and social care services; (b) making the views and experiences of members of the general public known to health and social care providers;
- (c) enabling local people to have a voice in the development, delivery and equality of access to local health and care services and facilities and;
- (d) providing training and the development of skills for volunteers and the wider community in understanding, scrutinising, reviewing and monitoring local health and care services and facilities
In setting these objectives, the trustees have had due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission, in accordance with their duty under section 17 of the Charities Act 2011.
## **Going Concern**
Following the transfer of its primary funding contract to a new provider on 1 August 2025, the charity has ceased operations. The trustees are now taking steps to wind up the charity. As a result, the charity is no longer a going concern. The trustees have assessed the costs required to close the charity and have accrued them into these financial statements.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
Healthwatch Hillingdon (HwH) is delighted to be able to report that we have continued to build on our excellent progress in helping to achieve real improvements in local health and social care services.
We can highlight several areas where the organisations that run our local health and care services have acted upon our representations and made improvements to services. Demonstrating that, as in previous years, we have ensured that the public and users of Hillingdon’s health and social care services have a strong voice and are influencing change.
Over the course of the period, Healthwatch Hillingdon heard from over 200 residents who shared their experiences of health and social care services with us, helping to raise awareness of issues and improve care. 145 people came to us for clear advice and information about topics such as booking appointments, access to services, and administration (including records, letters, and test results). We published 2 reports about the experiences of patients and improvements people would like to see to health and social care services – specifically a review of Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services, and Access to Primary Care.
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **Achievements and performance (continued)**
Throughout the period, we were able to support residents through our advice and signposting service by assisting in booking Phlebotomy appointments – and following feedback from interaction with patients, we were able to streamline the pathway for blood test bookings in acute settings. We completed and shared the findings from our Central & North West London Mental Health Inpatients review, our volunteers participated in the Hillingdon Hospital Trust PLACE assessments. In the summer, we focused on gathering the experiences and feedback of residents related to access to primary care, coordinating with our Integrated Care Partnership to ensure representation for seldom-heard and high-risk groups. In the autumn and winter, our volunteers led a project to assess the efficacy of the Pharmacy First scheme, and the 2-year project focusing on Mental Health provision for Children and Young People neared its end, with regular updates and sharing of learnings with commissioners and providers – the report has since been published.
In November of 2024, Healthwatch Hillingdon was informed by its commissioner, The London Borough of Hillingdon, that the Healthwatch Hillingdon contract would be amended for the following year (202526), with significant changes to the service specification and a reduction of funding. As such, this necessitated a tender process, requiring the incumbent provider, and any prospective providers to submit bids for the contract. Following a full board meeting of the Healthwatch Hillingdon Trustees and Managing Director, the decision was made not to place a bid for the contract, as the revised terms and funding envelope were deemed unsustainable for the contract length (5 years, with 3 years potential extension). Due to an unsuccessful round of bids, the contract was awarded to a new provider in June of 2025, requiring our current contract to be extended to July 2025. The handover process was completed in August 2025. The trustees are now organising an orderly wind up of the charity’s affairs.
Our work for 2024-25 is detailed in our Annual Report which was published on 27[th] October 2025 and can be downloaded at: https://healthwatchhillingdon.org.uk/report/2025-10-27/annual-report-2024-25
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
The Statement of Financial Activities is described on page 7.
## **Financial Support**
During the period, Healthwatch Hillingdon (“the charity”) benefitted from the generous support of the London Borough of Hillingdon (“The Borough”). During the period to 31 July 2025 the charity received £230,667 (Year to March 2024: £158,000) of grant funding from the Borough. These funds are restricted for use in the following category:
- The advancement of health and the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship
The charity has only basic financial instruments, being debtors, cash, creditors and accruals.
## **Public Benefit Reporting**
The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning future activities.
## **Reserves policy**
The charitable company is funded with an expectation to spend all public funds which are received. The Trustees have not set a reserves policy for future operations as the charity ceased operations on 31[st] July 2025. All remaining funds were applied to meet contractual obligations, staff redundancies, and other closure costs.
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The charitable company is controlled by its governing document, the memorandum and articles of association, adopted on 14 March 2013 and as amended by a special resolution registered at Companies House on 21 May 2013.
Since April 2019 a Trustee has been appointed to oversee the budget setting and monitoring processes. He meets regularly with the lead officer to ensure that the agreed systems are adhered to.
The service provided under the Healthwatch Hillingdon contract was governed by a funding agreement with London Borough of Hillingdon, with a commencement date of 1 April 2013.
## **Recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The Chair and the Board of Trustees are selected for appointment on merit, through a fair and open recruitment process.
Board members act as Directors and Trustees of Healthwatch Hillingdon under the Companies Act 2006 and Charities Act 2011. Their tenure is for an initial term of 3 years and members can be re-appointed to serve a further 3-year term, to a maximum of 9 years’ service.
Applications are invited from people that live or work in Hillingdon, who can demonstrate a good knowledge of the borough and/or experience in areas of health or social care. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
Applications are evaluated by a selection panel and applicants that meet the requirements are invited to meet the selection panel through an informal process **.** The appointment of successful candidates is approved and ratified by the Board at the Public Board Meeting.
## **Trustee induction and training**
A formal induction programme for new Trustees has been formulated that ensures all new Trustees receive various documents detailing the legal obligations of Trustees, alongside the Articles of Association, key policy and governance documents and details of the organisational structure.
Training is given to Trustees to enable them to carry out their role on the Board and additional training is provided where Trustees become involved in other Healthwatch activities. An assessment of training needs is carried out by the Chairman of Trustees during annual review meetings held individually with Trustees.
## **Remuneration of Key Management Personnel**
The Board of Trustees, and the Managing Director (Company Secretary) are in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the charity on a day-to-day basis, and therefore, make up the key management personnel of the charity.
All Trustees give of their time freely and no Trustees received remuneration. Details of Trustees’ expenses are disclosed in note 5 to the accounts. The pay of the Managing Director is reviewed annually. In view of the nature of the charity, the Trustees benchmark pay levels against other Healthwatch and voluntary sector organisations of a similar size within our region.
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES RESPONSIBILITIES**
The Trustees (who are also directors of Healthwatch Hillingdon for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP;
- make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in business
The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
This report for 2025 was approved by the trustees on 19 March 2026 and signed on their behalf by:
……………………………………. L Hill Trustee
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**REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER TO THE TRUSTEES OF HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Healthwatch Hillingdon for the 16month period ended 31 July 2025 which are set out on pages 7 to 14.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your company’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
I draw attention to the Going Concern section of note 1 to the financial statements, which states that the financial statements have been prepared on basis other than going concern. Following the transfer of funding to a new provider, the trustees are in the process of winding up the charity.
I have no further concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
…………………………….. Katy Shearman FCA
Date: …….………………..
Azets Audit Services Gladstone House 77-79 High Street Egham Surrey TW20 9HY
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## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCORPORATING AN INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME**
Charitable Activities
**2**
**Total income**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Charitable activities**
**3**
**Total expenditure**
**Net (expenditure)/income**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Period**
**ended**
**31 July**
**2025**
**Total**
**funds**|Year ended
31 March
2024
Total
funds|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Discontinued**|**Operations**||
||**£**
**-**
**-**
**85,344**
**85,344**
**(85,344)**
**85,638**
**294**|**£**
**231,736**
**231,736**
**315,311**
**315,311**
**(83,575)**
**83,575**
**-**|**£**
**231,736**
**231,736**
**400,655**
**400,655**
**(168,919)**
**169,213**
**294**|£
244,171|
|||||244,171|
|||||217,787|
|||||217,787|
|||||26,384
142,829|
|||||**169,213**|
There were no gains or losses for the year other than those recognised in the statement of financial activities.
The notes form part of these financial statements
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## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
## **BALANCE SHEET AT 31 JULY 2025**
|Notes
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Cash at bank and in hand
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within
one year
6
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS**
**CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS**
8
Unrestricted funds
Restricted funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
70,725
70,725
70,431
294
294
294|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-|**31 July**
**2025**
**Total**
**Funds**
**£**
**70,725**
**70,725**
**70,431**
**294**
**294**
**294**
**294**
**-**
**294**|31 March
2024
Total
Funds
£
182,883|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||182,883
13,670|
|||||169,213|
|||||169,213|
|||||169,213|
|||||85,638
83,575|
|||||169,213|
For the period ended 31 July 2025, the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act relating to small companies.
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the period in question in accordance with section 476;
- The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees on 19 March 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
……………………………………..
L Hill Trustee
Company number: 08445068 Charity number: 1152553
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **General Information**
Healthwatch Hillingdon is a private charitable company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales. The registered and principal office is disclosed on page 1.
## **Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019), Financial Reporting Standard 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention.
The charitable company meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102.
The functional and presentational currency of the charitable company is Sterling. This is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the charity operates.
The comparative figures cover a 12 month period to 31 March 2024.
## **Going concern**
Following the end of the charity’s principal funding agreement, the charity ceased operations on 31 July 2025. The trustees are taking steps to wind up the charity. As such, the charity is no longer a going concern, and the accounts have been prepared on a basis other than going concern. The costs of winding up the charity have been accrued into these financial statements.
The principal accounting policies for the charitable company are set out below:
## **Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included on the Statement of Financial Activities when the charitable company is legally entitled to the income, and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy and are recognised in the period to which they relate.
Where income relating to future periods is received in advance, or income relating to past periods is received in arrears, such amounts are held as deferred or accrued income accordingly.
Grant income, whether “capital” or “revenue” grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions are attached to grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received, and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Resources expended**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that settlement will be required, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.
All expenditure is accounted for on an accrual basis. All expenses including support costs and governance costs are allocated or apportioned to applicable expenditure headings. Redundancy and severance payments are recognised as a constructive obligation to pay them exists at the period end.
Resources expended comprise:
**Costs of charitable** Charitable Activities as disclosed in the SOFA are as follows: **activities** expenditure on charitable activities and other resources expended.
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 July 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES (continued)**
## **Resources expended (continued)**
The costs of charitable activities include direct expenditure. The accounting treatments for these are as follows:
|**Charitable activities**|The charitable activities flow from the Charity’s vision and purpose,|
|---|---|
||which are highlighted in the Trustees’Report|
|**Other resources**|Represents those items not falling into any other heading.|
|**expended**||
## **Taxation**
The charity is an exempt charity within the meaning of schedule 3 of the Charities Act 2011 and is considered to pass the tests set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes.
## **Fund accounting**
Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by the donor or trust deed.
Unrestricted income funds comprise those funds which the trustees are free to use for any purpose in furtherance of the charitable objects. Unrestricted funds include designated funds where the trustees, at their discretion, have created a fund for a specific purpose.
## **Cash at bank and in hand**
Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with an original maturity date of three months or less.
## **Cash Flow Statement**
The charitable company is exempt from presenting a cash flow statement, as it qualifies as a small charity under the SORP.
## **Creditors and Provisions**
Creditors and provisions are recognised when the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount to settle the past obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their transaction price after allowing for any trade discounts due unless the arrangement constituted a financing transaction in which case the transaction is measured at present value of future payments discounted at the prevailing market rate of interest. Other financial liabilities are initially measured fair value net of their transaction costs. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest rate method.
## **Judgements and estimates**
The preparation of the financial statements requires trustees to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and underlying assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
## **Operating leases and commitments**
All amounts paid for goods and services under operating leases are recognised as expenditure over the life of the lease and are included within expenditure in the period to which they relate.
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## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **2. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
|L B Hillingdon – Healthwatch
project grant
Other grants receivable
Other restricted income|**Unrestricted**
**£**
-
-
-
-|**Restricted**
**£**
210,667
20,000
1,069
231,736|**16 m**
**period**
**2025**
**Total**
**£**
**210,667**
**20,000**
**1,069**
**231,736**|Year
2024
Total
£
158,000
86,171
-|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||244,171|
Local government grants are received as part of the contract with London Borough of Hillingdon for the delivery of Healthwatch services within the borough.
In 2024 all income was recognised as restricted funds.
## **3. TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**
|**Charitable activities**
Staff costs (note 4)
Volunteer expenses
Other charitable activities
Premises costs
Insurance
Office costs
Advertising
Independent examiners
remuneration – IE fee
Legal costs
Other costs|**Unrestricted**
**£**
79,227
-
-
-
461
3,819
-
1,830
-
7
85,344|**Restricted**
**£**
255,354
1,026
22,449
302
4,736
22,005
1,325
7,470
-
644
315,311|**16 m**
**period**
**2025**
**Total**
**£**
**334,581**
**1,026**
**22,449**
**302**
**5,197**
**25,824**
**1,325**
**9,300**
**-**
**651**
**400,655**|Year
2024
Total
£
176,572
76
4,370
9,603
4,053
15,104
2,412
4,802
13
782|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||217,787|
All expenditure incurred in 2024 was recognised within restricted funds.
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## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **4. EMPLOYEE COSTS**
|Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Pension
Redundancy & severance costs
Staff recruitment costs
Staff expenses|**16 m**
**period**
**2025**
**Total**
**£**
**281,892**
**16,929**
**6,186**
**26,306**
**-**
**3,268**
**334,581**|Year
2024
Total
£
159,005
9,959
3,482
-
1,518
2,608|
|---|---|---|
|||176,572|
Two employees had emoluments (including taxable benefits in kind but not employer pension costs) between £80,001 and £90,000 during the current 16-month period. No employees had emoluments exceeding £60,000 in the previous period.
The average number of employees during the period was as follows:
|Administrative and operational staff|**2025**
2024
**No.**
No.
**6**
6|
|---|---|
## **Remuneration of Key Management**
The trustees consider the key management to be themselves, the Managing Director and Company Secretaries. Remuneration paid to key management, including employers pension contributions and employer national insurance contributions was:
|Key Management Remuneration|**16 m**
**period**
**2025**
**Total**
Year
2024
Total
**£**
£
**181,561**
97,272|
|---|---|
## **5. TRUSTEES REMUNERATION, EXPENSES AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS**
No trustees received any remuneration, benefits or other payments from the charity during the period. No related party transactions took place during the year (2024: no transactions).
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## **HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **6. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
|Trade creditors
Social security and other taxes
Accruals and deferred income
Other creditors|**2025**
**£**
**55**
**2,798**
**66,878**
**700**
**70,431**|2024
£
492
3,943
8,520
715
13,670|
|---|---|---|
Accruals include the expected costs to be incurred by the charity as it is wound up.
## **7. OPERATING LEASE COMMITMENTS**
The following operating lease payments are committed to be paid:
|Expiring:
Within one year
**8.**
**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
At 1 April
2024
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
85,638
**Restricted funds**
Healthwatch
47,391
Other projects
36,184
**TOTAL FUNDS**
169,213
At 1 April
2023
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
85,638
**Restricted funds**
Healthwatch
12,885
Other projects
44,306
**TOTAL FUNDS**
142,829|Income
£
-
210,667
21,069
231,736
Income
£
-
158,000
86,171
244,171|Expenditure
£
(85,344)
(258,058)
(57,253)
(400,655)
Expenditure
£
-
(123,494)
(94,293)
(217,787)|**Land and**
**buildings**
**2025**
**£**
**-**
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-
Transfers
£
-
-
-
-|Land and
buildings
2024
£
1,565|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**At 31 July**
**2025**
£
**294**
**-**
**-**|
|||||**294**|
|||||**At 31 March**
**2024**
£
**85,638**
**47,391**
**36,184**|
|||||**169,213**|
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**HEALTHWATCH HILLINGDON**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - CONTINUED FOR THE 16-MONTH PERIOD ENDED 31 JULY 2025**
## **8. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS (continued)**
## **Healthwatch Programme**
The funding received from London Borough of Hillingdon is restricted for use in delivering the Healthwatch service within the borough. The charity does not currently undertake any activities outside the scope of Healthwatch, but the funds have been ring-fenced as there is the possibility of undertaking other activities or providing ancillary services in the future.
## **Other projects**
Healthwatch Hillingdon continues to support residents through intelligence gathering on emerging themes; through joint working with commissioners in the North West London Integrated Care Board (NWLICB) and the Integrated Care Partnerships (ICP). Through our work with the Hillingdon Health and Care Partners (HHCP), we have assisted in ensuring the patient voice has been included through population health management developments in falls and frailty, and continued to support the wider region on topics such as access to primary care, and online consultations.
## **9. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES**
There is no contingent liability at year end.
## **10. CONTROLLING PARTY**
The trustees consider that there is no controlling party.
## **11. MEMBERS LIABILITY**
Each member of the charitable company undertakes to contribute £1 to the assets of the company in the event of it being wound up.
## **12. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS**
The charity held the following financial instruments, measured at amortised cost:
|Trade Creditors
Accruals and deferred income|**2025**
**£**
**(55)**
**(66,878)**
**(66,933)**|2024
£
(1,115)
(8,520)|
|---|---|---|
|||(9,635)|
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