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)

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.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP.

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.

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).

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

• 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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