Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity

Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity

Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity operates as the charitable arm of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, with the Trust Board serving as its corporate trustee. It channels donations and legacies into projects that UK statutory funding cannot cover, serving patients across the Royal Derby Hospital, Queen's Hospital Burton, and three community hospitals. The charity funds across five named areas: medical research and innovation, hospital environment enhancement, staff training and development, staff wellbeing, and community health projects. Capital deployment flows through grants for life-saving equipment — including cancer care apparatus — as well as building improvements and creative arts programming via its embedded Air Arts initiative. Its investment portfolio is held within the United Kingdom, and it runs a monthly lottery drawing that allocates prizes up to £2,000 in seasonal super draws. The charity operates from within Royal Derby Hospital, with no separate external office. Its full professional team size is not publicly disclosed, but governance sits with a corporate trustee chaired by Prem Singh, with Stephen Posey as chief executive of the NHS Trust and Chris Sands as its executive chief financial officer. It is a registered member of the Fundraising Regulator and a Bondholder member of Marketing Derby. The operative structure is unusual: a hospital charity whose grant-making committee answers to the same NHS board running the hospitals it funds. That tight coupling eliminates the typical foundation-hospital gap, but also concentrates governance within a single institution — a posture more clinical than philanthropic in design.