THE JESSIE MAY TRUST

Registered charity 1086048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

At the Jessie May Trust we provide a free Palliative Care Service for children and young people who are not expected to live beyond nineteen years. We work in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.Members of our experienced care team support each family at home with short periods of respite, advice, terminal nursing care and bereavement support.

Objects

The relief of children and young people living with physical conditions which are life-threatening or life-limiting and/or where the child/young person is not considered likely to live into adulthood, and their families and carers, in such ways as the Trustees think fit, in particular (but not exclusively) by: (a) the provision of respite or palliative care in the community for affected children, young people, and their families and carers; (b) the advancement of the education of health professionals, statutory authorities, GP practices and others in the condition of children and young persons with terminal illness, in particular through the representation of such persons and their families to local statutory authorities and professional groups ; (c) the provision of bereavement support to families who have lost a child or young person, and; (d) the provision of advocacy support for the child, young person and their families and carers.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE CITY OF BRISTOL AND BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £53,739 for the year, bringing total reserves to £1,867,340. The trustees consider the ideal level of reserves to be between £434k and £867k, noting that current free reserves of £458k equate to just over 3 months of operating expenditure. The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees concluding the charity has adequate resources to meet liabilities for at least 12 months despite an impending merger.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 31/03/2026, 59 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04118341

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jessie May (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jess Patel — CEO (source)
• Andrea Choules — 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.

• TILLEY, Caroline — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• BEDFORD, Samuel Martyn — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• BROUGHTON, Alan — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• GOULD, Andrew Mark — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• TURNER, David Mark — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• MCGINN, Miranda — director, appointed 08/06/2020on trustee list
• LEGGE, Michael Anders Comyn — director, appointed 17/02/2020on trustee list
• WEBBER, Jonathan Charles — secretary, appointed 01/04/2026

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: The Jessie May Trust — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 26/01/2015.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 ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.5% of total income — in the top quarter 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).

• The Jessie May Trust: Good (08/07/2024) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Broughton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Gould
• Caroline Tilley
• Daniel Cheesman
• David Turner
• Michael Legge
• Miranda McGinn
• Samuel Bedford

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Swindon · Wiltshire

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 JEREMIAH'S JOURNEY.

• JEREMIAH'S JOURNEY income £277k
• JESSIE'S FUND income £337k
• THE ST PETER AND ST JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £6.7m
• THE JS CHARITY income £37k
• EAST CHESHIRE HOSPICE income £7.8m
• BASINGSTOKE & DISTRICT YOUNG CARERS income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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