Hospices of Hope Limited

Registered charity 1088475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICE OF HOPE, HOSPICE OF HOPE FOR ROMANIA, HOSPICE OF HOPE ROMANIA LIMITED, HOSPICES OF HOPE · also registered in Scotland as SC040117 (OSCR)

Hospices of Hope works through its partner organisations in Romania and the surrounding countries to relieve the suffering of terminally ill adults and children by increasing access to palliative care. The charity encourages the hospice movement through education, innovation, advocacy. The charity doesn't work directly with its vulnerable beneficiaries, the model is to support local organizations.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £61,260 for the year, resulting from the proactive use of accumulated unrestricted reserves to increase grant distributions to partners. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £636,001 remain within the newly adopted risk-based policy range of £480,000 to £730,000. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has the financial resources to continue in operation for at least 12 months from the date of the report.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: HOSPICES OF HOPE TRADING LTD Companies House 02421289
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04120082

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anna Perolls — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jess Bayford — Income Generation Director (source)
• Denis Keefe — Chair (Trustee) (source)
• Raluca Gold-Fuchs — Chairperson (US Board) (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.

• MACINTYRE, Richard Christopher — director, appointed 24/11/2025on trustee list
• BLOMFIELD, Alexander Douglas Hal — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• KEEFE, Denis Edward Peter Paul — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• PETREANU, Andreea — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• EVANS, Sioned Elizabeth, Dr — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• GOLDSBOROUGH, David John — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
• GRACE, David William — director, appointed 09/02/2022on trustee list
• WOODWARD, Richard Harry — director, appointed 09/02/2022not on trustee list
• ERKAN, Yapincak — director, appointed 01/03/2019on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Peter Andrew — director, appointed 08/02/2019on trustee list
• INGRAM, Simone Yvette, Mrs. — director, appointed 25/10/2018on trustee list
• PEROLLS, Anna Jacqueline — secretary, appointed 24/11/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £380k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (76% 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: 71.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Douglas Hal Blomfield
• Andreea Petreanu
• David Goldsborough
• David William Grace
• Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe
• Dr Sioned Evans
• Peter Andrew Russell
• Richard Macintyre
• Rick Woodward
• Simone Yvette Ingram
• Yapincak Erkan

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

Operates in: Albania · Greece · Kent · Moldova · Romania · Serbia · Ukraine

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES.

• HOPE HOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPICES income £13.4m
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• Havens Hospices income £20.6m
• HOPE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £398k
• FND HOPE UK income £274k
• HALTON HAVEN HOSPICE income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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