HOSPICE UK

Registered charity 1014851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELP THE HOSPICES · also registered in Scotland as SC041112 (OSCR)

Hospice UK is the national charity working for those experiencing death, dying and bereavement. Our strategic goals underpin our programmes and aim to ensure hospice quality care is delivered in any setting; tackle inequality and widen access to hospice care; build community capacity and resilience and empower a strong, dynamic and responsive hospice sector.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus on unrestricted general funds of £1.1M for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £4.2M were held at year-end, which is in line with the charity's stated policy target of at least £4M. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hospice UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Toby Porter — CEO (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (26,378 followers) · instagram

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Content & Brand Manager — £43,680 per year · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 day ago (seen 09/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Jenningschair
• Andrew Charles Strevens
• Chloe Chik
• DAVID SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Michael George Miller
• Dr Sabrina Bajwah
• Dr Samuel Kofi Kyeremateng
• Helen Claire Julia Bennett
• Michelle Rollinson
• Professor Alison Richardson
• Professor Helen Jane Laville
• Richard Thomas George Winter
• Rosemary Eileen Keeton
• Sharon Allen

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HOSPICE AID UK.

• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD income £6.1m
• ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED income £10.4m
• ST RAPHAEL'S HOSPICE income £9.5m
• BURY HOSPICE income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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