Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust General Purposes Charity

The Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust General Purposes Charity, established in 1998, is a longstanding NHS-affiliated funder dedicated to advancing health, saving lives, and enhancing patient care at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital—now under Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust—in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Its mission focuses on supplementing standard NHS funding through grants for health-related activities benefiting patients, staff, and the local community, guided by principles of public benefit, transparency, and stewardship. Distinctively, while most new fundraising flows through the proactive WISHH Charity it helped establish, this general purposes fund continues broad, internal support for Trust hospitals.

It funds a wide array of NHS-connected initiatives, including patient and staff welfare, equipment, amenities, training, research, service improvements, environmental enhancements, and specialist projects, prioritising tangible impacts on hospital operations and wellbeing without thematic restrictions.

Exclusively supporting NHS entities, internal departments, and affiliated projects in the East Riding of Yorkshire, it does not fund external charities, independent organisations, or activities outside the Trust. Unsolicited applications are not accepted; funding requests are handled internally via NHS liaison, with no public process, forms, or deadlines—decisions occur ad hoc at trustee meetings. Grants up to £10,000 are authorised by fund holders, larger ones require trustee approval; 2023-24 expenditure totalled £701,000, typically in thousands to tens of thousands per project. External enquiries should go to WISHH.