Annual health budget allocation to charitiesAnnual health budget allocation to charities
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05 March 2026.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 795075341
Provide information on how much of the health budget is allocated to charities e.g. Family Nursing and Home Care.
Provide the data breakdowns for this over the past 10 years.
Response
The attached table details the Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) Department expenditure with charitable organisations each year, from 2016 to 2025 (inclusive), as identified from cash payment records based upon supplier payment information.
Charity Expenditure 2016 to 2025
The charities to which these payments were allocated are listed below:
- Acorn Enterprises
- Age Concern Jersey
- Autism Jersey
- Barnardos
- Beresford Street Kitchen
- Brighter Futures
- By The Bridge
- Centrepoint Trust
- Childhood First
- Communicare Centre
- Dementia Jersey
- Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
- EYECAN
- Family Nursing and Home Care
- Good Companions Club
- Headway (Jersey) Ltd
- HomeCall
- Independent Advocacy My Voice Jersey
- Jersey Action Against Rape
- Jersey Alzheimers Association
- Jersey Association Family Therapy
- Jersey Brook Advisory Centre
- Jersey Cheshire Home
- Jersey Child Care Trust
- Jersey Citizens Advice Bureau
- Jersey Council On Alcoholism
- Jersey Eating Disorders Support
- Jersey Employment Trust
- Jersey Family Mediation Service
- Jersey Heritage
- Jersey Homeless Outreach Group
- Jersey Hospice Care
- Jersey Mencap
- Jersey Womens Refuge
- Les Amis
- Maison des Landes
- Mind Jersey
- Ramp Arts Jersey
- Relate Jersey Marriage Guidance
- Shelter Trust
- Silkworth Lodge
- Societe Jersiaise
- Spinal Injuries Association
- St John Ambulance (Jersey)
- The Bosdet Foundation
- The Florence Nightingale Foundation
- The Salvation Army
- Trinity Youth Centre Trust Incorporated
Changes to Government structure have influenced the continuity of some payments, for example, Children's Services moving to CYPES (Children, Young People, Education and Skills) from 2019, and a number of contracts moving to ESSH (Employment, Social Security and Housing) from 2021.
HCJ is unable to provide a breakdown of annual expenditure by organisation, as it would likely prejudice the commercial interests of HCJ and / or the charities. Therefore, Article 33 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.
Article applied
Article 33 Commercial interests
Information is qualified exempt information if:
(a) it constitutes a trade secret; or
(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).
Public Interest Test
Article 33 is a qualified exemption and, as such, HCJ has conducted a prejudice test as required by law.
When responding to requests of this nature, HCJ has to balance the public interest with the impact that disclosing this information would, or would be likely to, have upon the organisation and / or third parties. Whilst it is recognised that there is a public interest in transparency about budget allocation, protecting the commercial interests of HCJ is an essential component in controlling public finances, which in itself is in the public interest.
HCJ has assessed whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in supplying the information is outweighed by the prejudice that would likely result by doing so.
Having considered the public interest, HCJ has concluded that disclosing detail of annual payments made per charity / organisation would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of HCJ and / or the third parties, and that this outweighs the public interest in disclosure. On this basis, Article 33 has been applied.
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