BUTTERWICK LIMITED

Registered charity 1044816 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUTTERWICK, BUTTERWICK CHILDRENS HOSPICE, BUTTERWICK HOSPICE, BUTTERWICK HOSPICE AT BISHOP AUCKLAND, BUTTERWICK HOSPICE AT STOCKTON - BUTTERWICK HOSPICE AT BISHOP AUCKLAND, BUTTERWICK HOSPICE CARE

The charity's activities are the operation and provision of palliative care facilities and services for patients suffering from life threatening and limiting illness; along with related education into palliative care.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES RESIDENTIAL AND DAY CENTRE CARE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL AND CHRONICALLY SICK AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE CARE OF THE TERMINALLY ILL

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: Stockton-on-Tees, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is no longer a going concern and has been prepared on the cessation basis due to severe financial strain and depleted working capital. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are in deficit, and the group operated at a significant deficit of £1,101,979 for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Waltons Business Advisers Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → not a going concern (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
• 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 31/03/2025 (received 25/03/2026, 53 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02979587 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mike Thornicroft — Group Chief Executive (source)
• Ashleigh Trotter — Group Director of Retail (source)
• Kyla de Lehenstein Collins — Group Director of Fundraising & Communications (source)
• Charlotte Irving — Group Director of People & Governance (source)
• Heather Stuart — Group Director of Nursing & Quality (source)
• Katherine Frazer — Group Director of Resources (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.

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.

• GOODWIN, Amanda Jane, Dr — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list
• MORRIS, Richard Guy — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Gary — director, appointed 15/06/2026on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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: Butterwick Limited — Registered, 3 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 04/08/2022.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 ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 37.6% 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).

• Butterwick Hospice: Inadequate (05/05/2022) · CQC record
• Butterwick Hospice Stockton: Good (03/01/2025) · CQC record
• Butterwick House: Good (08/12/2022) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Amanda Jane Goodwin
• Dr Nicola Boswell Miller
• Gary Whitehead · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Morris · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Durham · North Yorkshire · Stockton-on-tees · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED.

• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k
• BUTTERFLIES BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT income £29k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• DONATING CHARITY LIMITED income £1.9m
• THE INSURANCE CHARITIES income £866k
• Boroughbridge Community Charity income £83k

Side by side with its peers

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