Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Fund

The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Fund is a specialist charity dedicated to advancing healthcare at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a leading UK centre for reconstructive plastic and maxillofacial surgery, burns care, corneoplastics, head and neck cancer surgery, and multidisciplinary treatments serving Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and the South East of England. Driven by core values of compassion, excellence, innovation, and collaboration, it enables patient care, staff wellbeing, and hospital enhancements beyond standard NHS funding through targeted grant-making to Trust initiatives, including restricted funds like the John McCully Fund for burns care and the JK Fund for microsurgery.

It prioritises projects improving direct patient outcomes and experiences—such as state-of-the-art equipment, environmental upgrades, therapeutic camps for paediatric patients, psychological therapies, research, education, staff training, hardship funds, and innovations like Schwartz Rounds for wellbeing—while investing in capital improvements and amenities that benefit patients, families, and staff across the hospital's regional and national catchment.

Exclusively supporting internal Trust departments and teams, it does not accept unsolicited applications from external organisations, charities, or community groups; eligibility is limited to proposals aligned with hospital strategy and donor intentions, with no geographic, income, or size restrictions beyond the Trust's South East focus. Funding operates on a rolling, needs-led basis via internal processes, with no deadlines or public calls; typical grants range from under £1,000 for amenities to over £10,000 for capital projects, totalling £240,255 in 2023-24 across 201 awards.

Distinctively integrated with a premier reconstructive and burns hospital, it excludes unrestricted or external core funding, emphasising sustainable, patient- and staff-centred impacts unattainable through NHS provisions alone.