CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST

Registered charity 1003314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5098112 · Wikipedia · also known as CHARLTON FARM, LITTLE BRIDGE HOUSE, LITTLE HARBOUR

Provision of hospice care for life-limited children and their families

Objects

The Charity's objects (the “Objects”) are the relief of babies, children and young people, particularly those who are resident in the Counties of South West England and neighbouring areas, and who are in need by reason of suffering from life-limiting and/or life threatening conditions, through the provision of specialist palliative and other care, and to provide support for the families of such babies, children and young people.

Area of benefit: SOUTH WESTERN COUNTIES OF ENGLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operational surplus of £690,136, driven by a one-off exceptionally large donation of £1,115,949; without this, the charity would have made a material operating deficit. The trustees report that unrestricted general reserves of £18,302,836 are just outside the target range of £20,076,369 to £22,972,804, and the sector is facing an acute funding crisis with increased costs driven by inflationary pressures.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Local businesses put pedal to the metal for Children's Hospice South West exetertoday.co.uk · 05/10/2026
• Bristol Airport cyclists raise £110,000 for Children's Hospice South West inyourarea.co.uk · 16/09/2026
• Beach'd Buoys Shanty Crew raises £7,000 for Children's Hospice South West thewestonmercury.co.uk · 12/09/2026
• Local sea shanty band raises £7,000 for Children’s Hospice South West with year-long effort - Burnham-On-Sea.com burnham-on-sea.com · 31/08/2026
• Argyle Life x Children’s Hospice South West argyle.life · 04/08/2026
• St Austell Brewery charity golf day raises £10,000 for Children’s Hospice South West beerguild.co.uk · 17/07/2026
• Bristol Airport announces epic cycling fundraiser in aid of Children’s Hospice South West regionalgateway.net · 17/06/2026
• Silver Band raise funds for Children’s Hospice South West aroundwellington.co.uk · 17/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02620879 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children's Hospice South West (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TILLEY, Caroline — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• BASHFORD, Ethna — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• BEDFORD, Samuel Martyn — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• STEEVENS, Jessica Saranne — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• GOULD, Andrew Mark — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Roger John — director, appointed 13/07/2018on trustee list
• BROUGHTON, Alan — director, appointed 13/07/2018on trustee list
• MORRIS, Patricia Mary — director, appointed 23/02/2016on trustee list
• TURNER, David Mark — director, appointed 30/09/2014on trustee list
• WEBBER, Jonathan Charles — secretary, appointed 08/03/2016

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

31 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Children's Hospice South West — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 11/01/2017.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Little Bridge House: Not Rated · CQC record
• Charlton Farm: Not Rated · CQC record
• Little Harbour: Not Rated · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patricia Morrischair
• Alan Broughton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Mark Gould
• Caroline Tilley
• David Mark Turner
• Ethna Bashford
• Jessica Steevens
• Roger John Knight
• Samuel Bedford

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Cornwall · Devon · Isles Of Scilly · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEMELZA HOSPICE CARE FOR CHILDREN.

• DEMELZA HOSPICE CARE FOR CHILDREN income £17.3m
• CHILD ACTION NORTHWEST income £8.0m
• ACORNS CHILDREN'S HOSPICE TRUST income £26.8m
• HOSPICE IN THE WEALD income £15.9m
• THE FOSTER CARE CHARITY income £4.2m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.