Keech Hospice

Registered charity 1035089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6382673 · Wikipedia · also known as KEECH COTTAGE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE, KEECH HOSPICE CARE, LUTON AND SOUTH BEDFORDSHIRE HOSPICE, PASQUE ADULT HOSPICE, PASQUE CHARITY

The provision of palliative and supportive care, and to support those with specific support needs, within Luton & South Bedfordshire (for adults) and within Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes (for children).

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. ( SEE GOVERNING DOCUMENT FOR FULL DETAILS )

Area of benefit: BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE

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: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £1,984,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by investment in care staffing and capital projects. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted undesignated reserves decreased to £6,934,000, which remains within the stated policy target range of six to nine months of budgeted operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Thurlow Nunn Luton team raises over £7,000 for Keech Hospice Care with Brecon Beacons challenge lutontoday.co.uk · 09/07/2026
• Take part in Leighton 10k run in aid of Keech Hospice Care this September leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk · 02/09/2024
• The Mall Luton partners with an artist to create special sculptures for Keech Hospice Care trail lutontoday.co.uk · 17/04/2024
• Photo of beloved sycamore tree taken hours before it was vandalised turned into art for Keech Hospice Care lutontoday.co.uk · 02/11/2023
• Future of Bedford Daycare Hospice secured following Keech Hospice Care merger bedfordindependent.co.uk · 06/06/2023
• All jobs safe as Keech Hospice Care in Luton merges with Bedford Daycare Hospice lutontoday.co.uk · 05/06/2023
• Keech Hospice Care receives £1,000 donation to hep with music and art therapy lutontoday.co.uk · 28/06/2022
• Keech Hospice Care gets £1k boost from Amazon in Dunstable lutontoday.co.uk · 27/06/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02904446

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Luton Rising — “We’re grateful for the generous support of Luton Rising , whose investment helps us deliver specialist care to local children, families and …” (source page)

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.

• AKTHAR, Anisah — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• CRADDOCK, Rowena Clare — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• HURST, Philippa Susan — director, appointed 26/03/2025on trustee list
• MALCOLM, Iain David — director, appointed 17/11/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Debra May — director, appointed 04/10/2023on trustee list
• GREEVY, Judith Christine — director, appointed 04/10/2023on trustee list
• OGDEN, Simon — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• MCMAHON, Michael John — director, appointed 26/03/2020on trustee list
• HEYES, Miriam Stone — director, appointed 22/01/2019on trustee list
• CANNON, Peter Kevin — director, appointed 19/06/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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: Keech Hospice Care — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 08/11/2023.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 ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 47.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2023) — 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 (30/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anisah Akthar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Debra Smith
• Iain David Malcolm
• Judith Greevy
• Michael John McMahon
• Miriam Heyes
• PETER CANNON
• Philippa Susan Hurst
• Rowena Clare Craddock
• Simon Ogden · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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• KEYCHANGE CHARITY income £10.6m
• HOSPICE AID UK income £115k
• HALTON HAVEN HOSPICE income £2.7m
• THE HEART OF KENT HOSPICE income £11.4m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

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