DOVE COTTAGE DAY HOSPICE

Registered charity 1057941 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DOVE COTTAGE DAY HOSPICE LTD

An independent hospice providing palliative day-care to those people living in NE Leicestershire , SE Nottinghamshire and Rutland with a diagnosis of cancer or other progressive illnesses for which there is no cure.

Objects

1) To promote the relief of sickness by such charitable means as the trustees may from time to time determine and in particular by the provision of care and support for persons with serious and progressive illnesses and by the provision of respite care for the carers or families of such persons. 2) To assist in the provision of any other charitable facilities for such persons and in particular to make grants to other charities having aims identical or similar to those of this charity

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: Melton, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, with the audit version showing a figure £2,344 lower than internal management accounts. The filing process is described as unsatisfactory, with significant disagreements between the charity's internal records and the auditors' drafts regarding restricted grants and accruals. The trustees are recommended to accept the draft accounts pragmatically despite these variances, which will impact the following year's opening balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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
• 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)

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 03240240

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dove Cottage, the Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire Day 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.

• KAVANAGH, Joanne Clare — director, appointed 10/07/2026on trustee list
• ADLAM, Jack Nicholas — director, appointed 17/03/2026on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Andrew James — director, appointed 07/01/2026on trustee list
• FORD, David Vincent — director, appointed 26/09/2025on trustee list
• MARCUS, Paul Adam — director, appointed 23/07/2024on trustee list
• GREENWELL, Christopher Ranald — director, appointed 01/03/2024on trustee list
• SMEETON, Danielle — secretary, appointed 15/04/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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: Dove Cottage Day Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 28/04/2022.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 ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (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).

• Dove Cottage Day Hospice: Requires improvement (17/10/2022) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Williamson
• Christopher Ranald Greenwell
• Jack Nicholas Adlam
• Joanne Kavanagh · trustee of 3 other charities
• Paul Marcus

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Nottinghamshire · Rutland

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

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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 HOYLAKE COTTAGE.

• HOYLAKE COTTAGE income £5.2m
• LEWIS-MANNING HOSPICE CARE income £3.6m
• THE COTTAGE COMMUNITY income £104k
• WOODLANDS HOSPICE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND income £2.0m
• ASHGATE HOSPICECARE income £15.6m

Side by side with its peers

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