ST. DAVID'S HOSPICE

Registered charity 1038543 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST DAVID'S HOSPICE

St David's Hospice is an adult palliative care facility with fourteen registered beds providing symptom relief, respite and end of life care. There is also a day unit for up to ten patients four days per week, and a bereavement and counselling service for one day per week. All care is free at the point of delivery.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ALONG OR WITH OTHERS, THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE COMPANY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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: Conwy, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a consolidated surplus of £388,314 for the year ended 31 December 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £3,286,269, which equates to just under seven months of expenditure. The financial position was supported by unforeseen funding sources, including a substantial increase in legacies and a one-off emergency fund from the Welsh Government.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Pritchett & Co Business Advisers Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW). 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St David's Hospice (North Wales) (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Alastair Mackay Hawkins Mr
• Dafydd Hardy
• David Richard Matthew Thomas
• Dr STEPHEN MACVICAR · trustee of 4 other charities
• Elaine Susan Gilbert
• Eleri Jones
• Kelly Marie Owen
• Michael Edward Hobday
• Sarah Louise Schofield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Paul Haynes
• Wyn Thomas · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Conwy · Gwynedd · Isle Of Anglesey

Income and spending

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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

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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 DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION.

• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION HOSPICE CARE income £10.2m
• HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD income £6.1m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE (EASTBOURNE) income £8.5m
• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m

Side by side with its peers

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