South Tees Hospitals Charity and Associated Funds

The charity supports health and wellbeing improvements including advanced cancer diagnostics and radiotherapy equipment, family support suites, specialist research, staff training, veteran care roles, and comfort projects for children and adults. It also funds digital and facility upgrades. Targeted subfunds, such as the STAR Fund for oncology, focus on specific areas. The charity provides capital grants for high-tech tools and revenue funding for patient experience initiatives. All funding is directed towards projects that benefit patients, carers, visitors and staff across the Trust’s catchment communities in Teesside and North Yorkshire.

Eligibility is limited to Trust-led wards, departments, or invited partners that directly benefit the charity’s catchment communities. Unsolicited applications from external entities are not accepted. The charity does not specify income thresholds or entity types beyond this internal focus, so only those with a direct connection to the Trust can access funding. The funder has no religious restriction.

The charity does not fund services that are the statutory responsibility of the NHS. It also avoids substituting core NHS provisions. Additionally, it does not accept unsolicited applications from organisations outside the Trust’s own wards, departments, and invited partners.

The charity works closely with Trust departments and invited partners, funding projects through capital grants for equipment and revenue support for patient experience improvements. It also operates targeted subfunds such as the STAR Fund. The charity does not accept unsolicited applications; funding is directed internally or through invitation only.