ST BENEDICT'S HOSPICE, SUNDERLAND

Registered charity 1019410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST BENEDICTS HOSPICE, SUNDERLAND CANCER RELIEF

St Benedict's Hospice provides palliative care services to the people of Sunderland and surrounding districts.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER OR ANY TERMINAL ILLNESS OR INTRACTABLE PAIN.

Area of benefit: SUNDERLAND AND NORTH EAST 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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £314,983 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a reduction from the previous year's deficit of £429,078. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £1,030,918 and designated funds of £550,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover financial risks and maintain operations. The auditor confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Inspire Compliance Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Benedict's Hospice, Sunderland (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK MOSSchair
• Debbie Hackett
• JANICE MARGARET BRAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanne Cameron Williams
• Lisa Alcorn
• Marie Bainbridge
• Maureen Wren
• Philip Foster
• Stephen Foster

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

Operates in: Durham · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED.

• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• Salisbury Hospice Charity Limited income £2.7m
• HOSPICE IN ROSSENDALE income £1.2m
• TRINITY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES LTD income £14.6m
• ST GILES HOSPICE income £12.8m
• ROYAL TRINITY HOSPICE income £17.8m

Side by side with its peers

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