SUE RYDER

Registered charity 1052076 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7634271 · Wikipedia · also known as SUE RYDER CARE, SUE RYDER FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE SUE RYDER FOUNDATION, THE SUE RYDER FOUNDATION LIMITED · also registered in Scotland as SC039578 (OSCR)

Provide specialist palliative care in our hospices and in patients' homes.Provide health and social support via community services. Provide grief and bereavement support.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are: 1. to provide or assist in the provision of care for persons suffering from any disability, incapacity or illness, whether physical or mental, 2. to relieve the needs of those people potentially excluded from society by reason of old age, ill health (physical or mental), disability, poverty, or criminal history, and to assist in their integration into society for the public benefit; 3. To advance the education of the public about the causes of disability, incapacity or illness, whether physical or mental and the means of relieving those needs. 4. To relieve the mental and physical suffering of persons affected by bereavement or loss, including by the provision of counselling and support for such persons.

Area of benefit: WORLD-WIDE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Sue Ryder reported a consolidated net deficit of £5.1m for the year ended 31 March 2026, a reduction from the £8.9m deficit in the prior year. The charity holds liquid free reserves of £15.1m, which the trustees consider appropriate given the diverse and fluctuating nature of its income streams. The trustees confirm that the charity is financially stable and able to continue operating for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit 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
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00943228

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sue Ryder (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.

• ALDERSON, Heather Josephine — director, appointed 02/09/2024on trustee list
• RAMKISSON, Vishen, Dr — director, appointed 15/05/2024on trustee list
• DARMON, Tabetha — director, appointed 12/07/2023on trustee list
• BISHOP, Polly — director, appointed 18/05/2023on trustee list
• MAKAREM, Rima, Dr — director, appointed 19/05/2021not on trustee list
• RICHMOND, Kevin Andrew — director, appointed 01/12/2020on trustee list
• GOODACRE, Linda Ann — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• BOERSMA, Guy Richard Douwe — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• RUSLING, Kevin Jonathan — director, appointed 23/05/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Design Thinking for Prison Industries: Exchanging design tools, methods and processes with prisons in London and Ahmedabad to build inmate resilience —
• Rapid evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic response in palliative and end of life care: national delivery, workforce and symptom management (CovPall) —

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Sue Ryder — Registered, 31 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 06/07/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Trustpilot: Sue Ryder scores 2.4/5 from 223 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (39,775 likes) · instagram (20K followers) · linkedin (16,262 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Commercial Compliance Manager — £45 – 52K per annum plus competitive reward and benefit scheme · Remote · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 65.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (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).

• Sue Ryder - Wheatfields Hospice: Inadequate (06/11/2025) · CQC record
• Sue Ryder - Leckhampton Court: Good (12/09/2022) · CQC record
• Sue Ryder - St John's: Outstanding (28/11/2019) · CQC record
• Sue Ryder palliative Care Hub- South Oxfordshire: Outstanding (06/04/2017) · CQC record
• Sue Ryder - Thorpe Hall: Good (24/12/2021) · CQC record
• Duchess of Kent Hospice: Outstanding (13/01/2020) · CQC record
• Sue Ryder - Manorlands Hospice: Not Rated · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Rima Makeremchair
• Dr Vishen Ramkisson
• Guy Richard Douwe Boersma
• Heather Josephine Alderson
• Julia Metcalf
• Kevin Andrew Richmond · trustee of 8 other charities
• Kevin Jonathan Rusling
• Lori Cunningham
• Polly Bishop
• Professor Jugdeep Kaur Dhesi
• Tabetha Darmon

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION.

• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• ROYAL TRINITY HOSPICE income £17.8m
• HOSPICE IN ROSSENDALE income £1.1m
• SWAFFHAM AND LITCHAM HOME HOSPICE SUPPORT LIMITED income £121k
• ST BENEDICT'S HOSPICE, SUNDERLAND income £1.9m
• PEREDUR TRUST income £314k

Side by side with its peers

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