CICELY SAUNDERS INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1087195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q33121833 · also known as THE CICELY SAUNDERS FOUNDATION

Our mission is to promote research to improve the care and treatment of all patients with progressive illness and to make high-quality palliative care available to everyone who needs it: be it in hospice, hospital or home. There is no other charity specifically concerned with carrying out work to identify and promote best practice in palliative care.

Objects

TO INVESTIGATE, PROMOTE AND ADVANCE HIGH STANDARDS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN PALLIATIVE CARE, IN PARTICULAR BY1) ADVANCING STANDARDS OF HIGH QUALITY CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE ILLNESS AND THEIR FAMILIES, WHEREVER THE PERSON IS CARED FOR;2) CONDUCTING, SUPPORTING, FUNDING AND COMMISSIONING WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH IN EFFECTIVE, PERSON-CENTRED AND SPIRITUALLY SYMPATHETIC FORMS OF PALLIATIVE CARE, IN PARTICULAR, PERFECTING RELEVANT AND ROBUST METHODS TO SET AN INTERNATIONAL GOLD STANDARD OF PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH3) INVESTIGATING AND PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER AND NON-CANCER PROGRESSIVE ILLNESS AND FROM SECTIONS OF SOCIETY WHICH MISS OUT ON THE BEST IN PALLIATIVE CARE;4) PROVIDING POST-GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION FOR DOCTORS, NURSES AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD;AND5) PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF PALLIATIVE CARE AND THE AVAILABLE TREATMENTS AND SERVICES AND INFLUENCING PRACTICE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY ON CARE TOWARDS THE END OF LIFE

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

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £250,369 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £3,055,918. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £1,149,431, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover core costs for the foreseeable future and meet their policy target of 18 months' unrestricted expenditure. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04120060

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cicely Saunders International (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.

• CHADS, Zoe Phoebe — director, appointed 26/08/2026on trustee list
• SANDERSON, Timothy William — director, appointed 28/04/2026on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Gareth — director, appointed 24/04/2019on trustee list
• GARSIDE, Pamela Mary — director, appointed 30/10/2018not on trustee list
• CHANTLER, Cyril, Sir — director, appointed 23/01/2018on trustee list
• KIRK, Katherine Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/01/2015not on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Hugh Henderson, Sir — director, appointed 01/05/2011not on trustee list
• FOLEY, Kathy, Dr — director, appointed 10/09/2001not on trustee list
• KIRK, Katherine Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 25/07/2023

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~43.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS Kate Kirkchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Williams
• Pam Garside
• SIR CYRIL CHANTLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR HUGH TAYLOR KCB
• Timothy William Sanderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zoe Phoebe Chads

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAILORS' SOCIETY.

• SAILORS' SOCIETY income £1.5m
• SANCTUARY FOUNDATION income £100k
• THE INTENSIVE CARE SOCIETY income £1.8m
• THE CHASELEY TRUST income £7.0m
• Paediatric Critical Care Society income £212k
• ICANDANCE income £255k

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