We have five unrestricted Charitable Trust Funds. This means you can choose the area you would like your donation to support across the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.
We can only accept unrestricted donations. This means donations cannot include specific conditions or restrictions, allowing us to use the funds where they are needed most.
Where your donation can make a difference
- Community Care – For example, palliative care, bereavement support, day centres, hospital and community services.
- Medical and Medicine – For example, diabetes, neurology, renal, coronary care, pharmacy, respiratory, rheumatology, stroke and acute medical services.
- Children, young people, paediatrics and women – For example, nursing, paediatrics, family centres, gynaecology, maternity, children and adolescent services.
- Surgical and Clinical – For example, intensive care, stomacare, pain relief, breast care, cancer services, dental, surgery and diagnostics services.
- Mental health, learning disability and psychological services – For example, hospital and community health services and supported living.
How we manage and use charitable donations
The objectives of the Charitable Trust Funds held by the Trust are to ensure that charitable donations received by the Trust are appropriately managed, invested, expended and controlled in a manner that is consistent with the purposes for which the funds were given, and in accordance with the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions and Departmental guidance and legislation.
The funds are used to support expenditure in the following areas to benefit patients, residents or clients using the Northern Health and Social Trust’s services’, in line with donor’s wishes:
- Provision of comforts;
- Purchase of equipment and services; and
- Research into any aspect of the work of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust.
The Northern Health and Social Care Trust’s Charitable Trust Funds is on the deemed list of charities as it is registered with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for charitable tax purposes, registration number XT5430.
Gift Aid
If you have made a personal donation or intend to make a donation, Gift Aid will enable the Northern Health and Social Care Trust to increase the value of each pound donated, at no extra cost to the donor.
To be eligible to participate, you must pay sufficient United Kingdom tax (income or Capital Gains) to cover the amount the Northern Health and Social Trust will reclaim on your donation.
Please download a Gift Aid Declaration Form and return to the Financial Accounting Services Department, Northern Health and Social Care Trust at:
Financial Services Team – Income Section
Greenmount House, Woodside Industrial Estate, Woodside Road, Ballymena, BT42 4QJ
Alternatively, you can scan the completed form and email to charitabletrustfunds@northerntrust.hscni.net
Investments
The Northern Health and Social Trust aims to make the most of your donation by investing some of the funds with the Northern Ireland Central Investment Fund for Charities (NICIFC). Performance of investments, including funds managed through NICIFC, is routinely reviewed by the Charitable Trust Funds Advisory Committee throughout the year.
The share price of the fund over a five and a half year period to 31 March 2021 has increased by 398.10 pence, with an increase of 233.65 pence over the past financial year, which represented a gain for the Charitable Trust Funds of £754,000.
Long Term Share Price Movement
30/09/2022 – 31/03/2025
Share price in pence:
30 September 2022 – 1,384.98
31 March 2023 – 1,462.96
30 September 2023 – 1,417.37
31 March 2024 – 1,564.09
30 September 2024 – 1,571.85
31 March 2025 – 1,525.79