ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED

Registered charity 1046826 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISABEL HOSPICE

Hospice services providing specialist palliative care across home, day centre, outpatient and inpatient settings comprising multi-disciplinary medical, nursing, pre and post bereavement counselling and family support, spiritual care and benefit advice.

Objects

TO PROVIDE PALLIATIVE CARE AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CANCER, HEART, RESPIRATORY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES, AS WELL AS SUPPORT FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN THE BOROUGHS OF BROXBOURNE AND WELWYN HATFIELD AND THE DISTRICT OF EAST HERTFORDSHIRE AND ANY GEOGRAPHIC AREA SUBSEQUENTLY APPROVED BY RESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES.

Area of benefit: DISTRICTS OF WELWYN HATFIELD AND EAST HERTFORDSHIRE AND THE BOROUGH OF BROXBOURNE

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: Welwyn Hatfield, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £1.6 million for the year ended 31 March 2026, primarily driven by significant legacy income of £2.6 million and a capital grant. However, the trustees note that excluding these one-off factors, the underlying financial position remained under material pressure, with costs increasing and NHS income falling in real terms. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £9.273 million, with available reserves of £4.403 million, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of £2.7 million and support future operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ISABEL HOSPICE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 02417607
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03056823
• Trading subsidiary: IHL SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 15494138

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

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.

• OSBORN, Peter Gordon — director, appointed 10/06/2026on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Mark, Dr — director, appointed 10/06/2026on trustee list
• COSGRAVE, Fern Elysia — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• MARCHANT, Janet Maria — director, appointed 03/11/2025on trustee list
• SALE, Lisa — director, appointed 05/08/2024on trustee list
• MILLS, John Michael — director, appointed 05/07/2023on trustee list
• JACKSON, Claire — director, appointed 01/04/2023on trustee list
• ELLIS, Ian — director, appointed 15/12/2022on trustee list
• CROME, Renata — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• COTTRELL, Melanie — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• CHOLAK, Ozlem — director, appointed 01/12/2021on trustee list
• PHILPOTT, Terence John — director, appointed 06/11/2019on trustee list
• GLENISTER, Helen — secretary, appointed 01/03/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £3.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Isabel Hospice Limited — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 26/01/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 39.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (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).

• Isabel Hospice: Good (14/09/2016) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Terence John Philpottchair
• Claire Jackson
• Dr Mark Andrews
• Fern Elysia Cosgrave
• Ian Ellis
• Janet Maria Marchant
• John Michael Mills
• Lisa Sale
• Melanie Cottrell
• Ozlem Cholak
• Renata Crome · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

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 St Elizabeth Hospice.

• St Elizabeth Hospice income £19.3m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• ST GILES HOSPICE income £12.8m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m

Side by side with its peers

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