TYNEDALE HOSPICE AT HOME

Registered charity 1034170 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TYNEDALE COMMUNITY HOSPICE

Tynedale Hospice at Home provides community based hospice care. Care and support is also extended to the patient's families.We cover the Tynedale, Scots Gap and Ponteland area.Services include nursing, practical and emotional support and are free of charge.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS, IN PARTICULAR THE PROVISION OF END OF LIFE CARE, ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO OTHER PALLIATIVE CARE PROVIDERS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE AREA OF TYNEDALE, WEST NORTHUMBERLAND AND PONTELAND.

Area of benefit: TYNEDALE NORTHUMBERLAND

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: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £106,259 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was funded from reserves. The trustees note that the charity is critically dependent on local community support and anticipate a further deficit in the coming year while developing income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

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
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02870776

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tynedale Hospice at Home (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.

• HOWORTH, Bruce Neville — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• MILLS, Owen Mark — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• HERDAN, Bernard Laurence, Dr — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• BENJAMIN, Gillian — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• CARRIE, Lucy, Dr — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• GALBRAITH, Anne — director, appointed 21/05/2019not on trustee list
• JONES, Gillian — director, appointed 21/05/2019on trustee list
• FADDEN, Kathleen, Dr — director, appointed 21/05/2019on trustee list
• URWIN, Michael George — director, appointed 21/05/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Tynedale Hospice at Home — Registered, 4 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/06/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 57.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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).

• Tynedale Hospice at Home: Good (02/07/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Galbraith CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bruce Howorth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Bernard Herdan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Kathleen Fadden · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Lucy Carrie
• GILLIAN JONES
• Michael George Urwin
• Owen Mark Mills

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

Operates in: Northumberland

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 PENDLESIDE HOSPICE.

• PENDLESIDE HOSPICE income £5.7m
• HOSPICE IN ROSSENDALE income £1.1m
• HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND income £2.0m
• ST MARGARET'S SOMERSET HOSPICE income £15.4m
• THE SHAKESPEARE HOSPICE income £2.2m
• ASHGATE HOSPICECARE income £15.6m

Side by side with its peers

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