DEMELZA HOSPICE CARE FOR CHILDREN

Registered charity 1039651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DEMELZA HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE

Providing residential and community hospice care services and support for life-limited and life-threatened children, young people and their families.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational deficit of £1,232k (calculated as £18,567k expenditure against £17,335k operational income), though this was £1,616k better than planned. Per the trustees' report, free reserves increased to £11,971k, representing 7.4 months of running costs, which falls within the stated policy target of 6.5 to 10.5 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• Demelza Hospice Care for Children rebrands ehospice.com · 31/03/2023
• Demelza Hospice Care for Children launches new five-year strategy ehospice.com · 21/06/2022
• Juergen Teller's new series raises awareness for Demelza Hospice Care for Children itsnicethat.com · 12/02/2019
• Kent Academy students raise £1227.91 for Demelza Hospice Care for Children kentcricket.co.uk · 11/03/2011

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Demelza Hospice Care for Children (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lavinia Jarrett — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 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.

CQC provider record: Demelza House Childrens Hospice — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 21/09/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 44.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Air Marshal Sean Keith Paul Reynoldschair
• Alexander Guy Parry-Jones
• Charlotte Beth Parry-Jones
• Dr Jenneh Tarawally
• Dr Karl Thomas Holliman
• Dr Nicola Porter
• Dr Richard Antony Patey
• Harsimran Singh
• Heather Lucas
• John Edward Simpson
• Lucille Harvey
• Paul John Hewish
• Paula Marion Iliffe
• Richard Douglas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Graham Finn
• Rory Burns

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE.

• DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE income £7.7m
• CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST income £22.4m
• ZOE'S PLACE TRUST income £6.2m
• ALEXANDER DEVINE CHILDREN'S CANCER TRUST income £2.8m
• EAST ANGLIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPICES income £22.4m
• HELEN & DOUGLAS HOUSE income £10.7m

Side by side with its peers

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