ST CLARE WEST ESSEX HOSPICE CARE TRUST

Registered charity 1063631 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CLARE HOSPICE, ST CLARE HOSPICE TRUST, ST CLARE TRUST

St Clare Hospice exists to meet the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of those with advanced and progressive life limiting illness and of their carers, through the provision of specialist palliative care services, based on need, as far as its resources allow.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1.06m for the year ended 31 March 2025, a substantial decrease from the prior year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, the charity held net assets of £10.59m, with unrestricted general reserves of £4.4m, which is below the stated policy target of £5.3m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ST CLARE HOSPICE TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02951374
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03398955

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Clare Hospice (Hastingwood) (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.

• CATER, Jason Paul — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• GREENWOOD, Nicholas Sidney — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• HAJI, Muntazir — director, appointed 06/06/2023on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Melanie Claire — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• HOWE, Sarah Anne — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• SLADE, Lawrence Charles — director, appointed 07/06/2022on trustee list
• BALFOUR, Andrew Gordon — director, appointed 27/07/2021on trustee list
• PHILLIPS, Jeffrey Alan James, Dr — director, appointed 27/07/2021on trustee list
• BOSE, Monica, Dr — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• ROWLINSON, Jill — director, appointed 11/06/2018on trustee list
• BIRCH, Philip Thomas — director, appointed 27/02/2018on trustee list
• ROWLINSON, Jill — secretary, appointed 28/09/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 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: St Clare West Essex Hospice Care Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 11/12/2019.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 ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 35.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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).

• St Clare Hospice: Outstanding (23/03/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Jeffrey Alan James Phillipschair
• ANDREW GORDON BALFOUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Monica Bose
• JILL ROWLINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jason Cater
• Lawrence Charles Slade
• Melanie Wright
• Muntazir Haji
• Nicholas Greenwood
• Philip Thomas Birch
• Sarah Anne Howe

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD.

• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (HARROW AND BRENT) LTD income £13.0m
• ISABEL HOSPICE LIMITED income £10.4m
• SAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE income £13.5m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE(NORTH HAMPSHIRE) income £7.2m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD LTD income £6.1m

Side by side with its peers

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