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.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ILLNESS AND SUFFERING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY 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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swale, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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 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
• 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)

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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).

• 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 (22,671 followers) · instagram (5,920 followers)

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 3.7%) (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 CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST.

• CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST income £22.4m
• DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE income £7.7m
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE FAMILY CENTRE (DEAF CHILDREN) income £140k
• DEMENTIA CONCERN income £1.0m
• TEESSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

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