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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 5.2%) (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).

• 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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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JESSIE'S FUND.

• JESSIE'S FUND income £337k
• ALEXANDER DEVINE CHILDREN'S CANCER TRUST income £2.8m
• WESSEX CHILDREN'S HOSPICE TRUST income £9.1m
• THE ST PETER AND ST JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £6.7m
• HAVEN HOUSE FOUNDATION income £5.9m
• DERIAN HOUSE CHILDRENS HOSPICE income £7.7m

Side by side with its peers

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