EAST ANGLIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPICES

Registered charity 1069284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q104585876

The charity provides care and support to children with life threatening or life limiting illness and to their families.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND DISABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING1. TO PROVIDE MEDICAL, MATERIAL, EMOTIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND SPIRITUAL CARE FOR AND ACCOMMODATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM TERMINAL OR CHRONIC SICKNESS AND DISABILITY2. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS ARE OCCASIONED BY THE SICKNESS, DISABILITY OR DEATH OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR NEEDS OF COUNSELLING AND ACCOMMODATION3. TO PROMOTE CARRY OUT OR TAKE PART IN RESEARCH INTO PALLIATIVE CARE FOR ANY TERMINAL OR CHRONIC SICKNESS OR DISABILITY WHICH MAY AFFECT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH4. TO IMPROVE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING THE STANDARD OF NURSING CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH TERMINAL OR CHRONIC SICKNESS OR DISABILITY5. TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO HOSPICES WHICH CARE FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OR TO ESTABLISH SUCH NEW HOSPICES.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £2.7m on total income of £22.4m, with total expenditure rising to £19.8m. The Trustees report that the organisation is in strong financial shape, holding free reserves of £1.5m and a contingency reserve of £8.9m, which equates to nearly five months of planned expenditure. The charity remains heavily reliant on voluntary donations and retail income to sustain its services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PRICE BAILEY 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Norwich Airport announces East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices as adopted charity of the year norwichairport.co.uk · 24/03/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03550187
• Trading subsidiary: EAST ANGLIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPICES (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 09155768 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — East Anglia's Children's Hospices (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gemma Zweck — Director of Fundraising (source)
• Helen Finlinson — Director of Care (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• TURNER, Ian John — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• FERGUSON, Alexandra Louise — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• VENSKUNAS, Joanna — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Nicola — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• SAVORY, Shaun — director, appointed 01/05/2024on trustee list
• LIPP, Anna Katherine — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• JAMIE, Iain David — director, appointed 18/11/2020on trustee list
• SCHWER, Christopher Peter — director, appointed 18/11/2020on trustee list
• STEGGLES, Caroline Anne — director, appointed 18/11/2020on trustee list
• LLOYD-JONES, Annmarie — director, appointed 09/08/2018not on trustee list
• MCLEAN, Bradley Kenneth Duncan — director, appointed 18/10/2016not on trustee list
• KIANI-NASSERI, Ruth Sarah Blanche — secretary, appointed 31/10/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

61 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: East Anglia's Childrens Hospices — Registered, 5 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 14/01/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicola Richardsonchair
• ANNMARIE JONES
• Alexandra Ferguson
• Anna Katherine Lipp
• Caroline Steggles
• Christopher Peter Schwer
• Iain David Jamie
• Ian John Turner
• Joanna Venskunas
• Shaun Savory

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

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 THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE.

• THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE income £4.8m
• DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE income £7.7m
• CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST income £22.4m
• EASTON COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE EAST TO WEST TRUST income £1.2m
• EAST AND WEST AID income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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