KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE

Registered charity 1011712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KATHARINE HOUSE STAFFORD HOSPICE AT HOME

A provider of hospice services through inpatient, day care and home care.A provider of lymphoedema services.A provider of support to families, those who are bereaved, carers and ex-carers.A provider of home care through a care agency

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND SUFFERING (SO FAR AS SUCH PURPOSE IS CHARITABLE) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ASSOCIATION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a financial surplus of £553,194 for the year ended March 2025, with free reserves standing at £6,955,341, which equates to 15 months of operating costs. Per the trustees' report, the charity is investing these reserves to fund a planned budget deficit for 2025/26 and future capital works, while maintaining sufficient liquidity to continue operations over a medium term of three years.

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 4 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02700516

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Katharine House Hospice - Stafford (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Fletcher — Chief Executive (source)
• Lisa Taylor — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Dr Caroline Bruckner-Holt — Medical Director (source)
• Peter Catchpole — Chairman of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• BROOKE, Amanda Jayne — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• REEVES, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• KIRWAN, Stephen Paul — director, appointed 24/01/2023on trustee list
• PORTER, Andrew Sean — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• SMITH, Michael Richard — director, appointed 27/09/2022on trustee list
• HUGHES, Richard Glynn Moore — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
• DIN, Zia, Dr — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Brett Warwick James — director, appointed 27/10/2020on trustee list
• CATCHPOLE, Peter Robert — director, appointed 27/10/2020on trustee list
• HARRIS, Stephanie Joy — director, appointed 22/01/2019on trustee list
• JEFFRIES, Alan Patrick — director, appointed 25/09/2018on trustee list
• BLAND, Joseph Mark, Dr — director, appointed 24/07/2018on trustee list
• KIRWAN, Stephen Paul — secretary, appointed 28/11/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £2.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Katharine House Hospice — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 20/05/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 45.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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).

• Katharine House Hospice: Good (21/07/2016) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Robert Catchpolechair
• Alan Patrick Jeffries
• Amanda Jayne Brooke
• Andrew Sean Porter
• Brett Warwick James Phillips
• Dr Mark Bland
• Dr Zia Din
• Helen Elizabeth Reeves
• Michael Richard Smith
• Richard Glynn Moore Hughes
• STEPHANIE JOY HARRIS
• Stephen Paul Kirwan

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE TRUST.

• KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE TRUST income £3.3m
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• SAINT CATHERINE'S HOSPICE TRUST income £8.8m
• PILGRIMS HOSPICES IN EAST KENT income £18.9m
• DOROTHY HOUSE income £18.3m
• ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED income £10.4m

Side by side with its peers

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