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.

Objects

1. Purposes1.1 The Charity’s objects are, for the public benefit, to advance the health of individuals with advanced and progressive life-limiting illnesses and others approaching death (“such individuals”) and to relieve the needs (including, without limitation, the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs) of such individuals, their family, friends and carers and others who have experienced a bereavement or loss, in particular but not exclusively by:1.1.1 the provision of care, advice and services to such individuals, their family, friends and carers and others who have experienced a bereavement or loss;1.1.2 the provision of education, training, advice and support to those providing care, advice or services to such individuals, their family, friends and carers, and those who are in contact with those who have experienced a bereavement or loss;1.1.3 conducting and promoting research into the care and treatment of (or services for) such individuals, their family, friends and carers, and those who have experienced a bereavement or loss, and the dissemination of the results thereof; and1.1.4 promoting awareness of issues faced by such individuals, their family, friends and carers and those who have experienced a bereavement or loss, primarily but not exclusively in the western part of the county of Essex and the eastern part of the county of Hertfordshire.

Area of benefit: ESSEX

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: Epping Forest, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £990,950 for the year ended 31 March 2026, following a deficit of £1.06m in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity held net assets of £9.60m, with undesignated general reserves of £6.70m against a policy target of £5.15m. The trustees concluded that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Investing charity funds 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

• Trading subsidiary: ST CLARE HOSPICE TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02951374 · Financial health read from its filings
• 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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 39.0% 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).

• 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
• 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

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Known funders

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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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED.

• ST OSWALD'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £17.6m
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST MICHAEL'S HOSPICE (INCORPORATING THE FREDA PEARCE FOUNDATION) income £12.8m
• WESTON HOSPICECARE LIMITED income £6.2m
• ST KENTIGERN HOSPICE income £3.9m
• WOKING HOSPICE income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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