Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice Free 2023

Annual Accounts and Report 2022-23

LNWH Charity, the dedicated NHS charity for London North West University Healthcare Trust, funded innovative patient and staff projects across Ealing, Northwick Park and Central Middlesex hospitals in 2022-23. Key funded initiatives included the NEON youth worker pilot for 16-24 year-old patients (620+ supported), a dementia care programme, and staff wellbeing schemes. Total income was £790,830 and charitable expenditure £605,730.

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📋About

Patient welfare grants; staff welfare and wellbeing projects; medical equipment funding; NEON youth worker service for 16-24 year-old patients; dementia care programme; staff wellbeing challenge (VP GO); community fundraising; legacy giving

📊Key Metrics

620+ young people offered youth worker support through the NEON pilot service at Northwick Park and Ealing hospitals since launch Key Metric 1
£605,730 spent on charitable activities including patient welfare, staff welfare and medical equipment funding Key Metric 2
Since 2015, almost £9 million funded in projects at Ealing, Northwick Park and Central Middlesex hospitals going above and beyond NHS funding Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • NEON (Network for Emerging Older Needs) pilot launched, tackling health inequity among 16 to 24-year-olds admitted to adult wards who fall between paediatric and adult services
  • Charitable activities funded across three hospitals (Ealing, Northwick Park and Central Middlesex) plus community services in Brent, Ealing and Harrow
  • Funded staff wellbeing programme VP GO, in which LNWH NHS Trust staff collectively walked over 10 million steps

📍Geography

London

2026 Enhanced

Impact — Winter 2026

Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on charitable activities including £1,079,000 on research, £1,366,000 on EB Community Support, £943,000 on public education, £270,000 on EB healthcare and £185,000 on respite breaks
Key Metric 1
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling fans and sheepskin liners; 2 new holiday homes purchased in 2025 with over 700 guests enjoying holiday homes; £34,000 raised through 2025 winter 'The Longest Night' appeal
Key Metric 2
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed mapping global research priorities for all four main EB forms
Key Metric 3
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 1
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 2
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
Key Metric 3
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
2025 Enhanced

Our Impact 2024-25

3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 2
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to achieve this
Key Metric 3
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence