City Hospital NHS Trust
Charity 219348
Overview
Summary
City Hospital NHS Trust appears to function as a hospital-support charity with a dual role: improving practical care capacity through equipment funding and helping patients navigate the hospital environment. Its remit is unusually broad, extending from current and former patients to other people in the surrounding community who are ill, disabled or financially vulnerable. The available evidence suggests an organisation positioned between clinical departments, patients and the wider community, though its scale, decision-making priorities and relationship with the hospital itself remain unclear.
Operational geography
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Soho and Jewellery Quarter
Confidence: low
The Charity Commission's current record describes activity supporting hospital departments and maintaining an information desk for outpatients, while the charity's name and objects identify the relevant institution as City Hospital. City Hospital/City Health Campus is in Soho and Jewellery Quarter. However, no current source directly confirms that this separately registered, very small charity still delivers those activities on the campus; the current campus is operated by Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust.
- Charity Commission register, City Hospital NHS Trust (charity 219348), financial year ended 31 December 2024
The registered charity reports that it responds wholly or partly to requests for medical equipment for wards or departments and maintains an information desk directing outpatients to consultants' locations. Its objects include supporting the charitable work of the said hospital. - Birmingham City Council planning record / housing land availability evidence for City Hospital
The City Hospital site is identified as being in the Soho and Jewellery Quarter ward. - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, City Health Campus page
The former City Hospital site remains in healthcare use as City Health Campus, with outpatient, diagnostic, day-surgery, rehabilitation and eye-care facilities.
Remaining uncertainties
- The evidence does not directly establish that charity 219348 currently operates an information desk, funds equipment, or has any other active presence at City Health Campus.
- The current City Health Campus is operated by Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, not demonstrably by the separately registered charity City Hospital NHS Trust; their present operational relationship is unclear.
- The charity's registered address appears to be a care-of correspondence address and is not treated as an operational site.
- No evidence was found of current partnerships, additional Birmingham delivery sites, or activity extending beyond the hospital-linked location.
- The charity's 2024 income of £297 and expenditure of £0 make the scale and practical extent of current activity uncertain.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report, or charity statement identifying grants made, equipment supplied, and the location of any information-desk service.
- Confirmation from the charity's trustees or Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust of whether charity 219348 currently operates at, funds, or supports City Health Campus.
- A current list of any delivery sites, partner organisations, and beneficiaries served by the charity.
Areas of work
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who they help
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A bridge between hospital infrastructure and patient navigation
The charity appears to combine behind-the-scenes support for clinical services with direct, public-facing assistance for patients. Equipment requests support departments, while the information desk helps outpatients find consultants.
Why it matters
This suggests its role is not limited to fundraising: it may reduce friction in both the delivery and experience of hospital care. That combination could make it an important connector between institutional needs and patient needs.
Show evidence
“Responds, wholly or partly, to requests for medical equipment for wards or departments.”
Source:Organisation“Maintains an information desk directing outpatients to their consultants' locations.”
Source:Organisation
Its charitable boundary extends beyond the hospital
Although centred on the hospital, the charity's objects indicate a potentially wider community-welfare function, including former patients and other local people facing illness, disability or financial need.
Why it matters
This may create opportunities for links with community health, disability and financial-support organisations. It also raises a useful question about whether support continues after discharge or mainly remains hospital-based.
Show evidence
“Relieves patients and former patients of the hospital(s) and other invalids in the community who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped, infirm or in need of financial assistance.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
The organisation may hold an enabling rather than specialist role
Its stated methods span grants, services, human resources, advice and resource-body activity, suggesting it may be designed to enable others as well as help people directly.
Why it matters
This broad operating model could make the charity a useful partner for organisations with unmet health-related needs, but it also leaves its practical priorities and strongest capabilities uncertain.
Show evidence
“Provides human resources, services, advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.”
Source:Charity Commission“Makes grants to individuals and organisations.”
Source:Charity Commission
- It is unclear whether the organisation is operationally part of the NHS trust, an associated charity or independently governed.
- There is no evidence on funding levels, equipment priorities, grant criteria, geography or the volume of people supported.
- The extent of support for former patients and community members is unknown.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or accounts showing expenditure, grant recipients and funded equipment.
- Information on governance, hospital relationships and referral pathways for individual support.
- Service data or patient feedback about the information desk and community-facing assistance.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
To respond, wholly or partly, to requests for medical equipment forwards or departments. To maintain an information desk, conveying or directing out patients to their consultants location.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE PATIENTS AND FORMER PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITAL(S) AND OTHER INVALIDS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED, INFIRM OR IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND GENERALLY, TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SAID HOSPITAL