ZOE'S PLACE TRUST

Registered charity 1092545 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of hospice care for children aged 0 to 5 years. This may be extended to age 7 if there is a clinical or social need

Objects

the relief of children specifically but not exclusively aged 0 ? 5 years suffering from terminal or life limiting illnesses and their families by the establishment and maintaining of hospices throughout the United Kingdom to be known as Zoe's places. This care and support may be extended to children up to the age of 8 where there is a clinical or family need

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.

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Registered contact address: Redcar and Cleveland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £689,594 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by total income of £6,212,906. The group holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,092,455, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of four months' expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the charity is a going concern, citing strong positive cash balances and stress-tested forecasts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04446416
• Trading subsidiary: ZOE'S PLACE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 09557404

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Zoe's Place Trust - Middlesbrough (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Reynolds — Finance Director (Interim) (source)
• Joan Stainsby — Executive Trustee (source)
• Gina Ainsworth — Director of Clinical Services (source)
• Tommy Harrington — Director of Income Generation and Marketing (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.

• ZAPASNICK, Lois — director, appointed 07/12/2023not on trustee list
• SCHOFIELD, Alan, Mr. — director, appointed 11/11/2022on trustee list
• TIN, Win, Professor — director, appointed 28/05/2019on trustee list
• GREENALL, Christopher — director, appointed 07/12/2017on trustee list
• STAINSBY, Joan — director, appointed 29/09/2008on trustee list
• MCGUIRE, Peter Damien, Rev — director, appointed 23/05/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Zoe's Place Trust — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 15/11/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.9% 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).

• Zoe's Place Middlesbrough: Good (14/01/2020) · CQC record
• Zoe's Place Baby Hospice: Good (29/10/2025) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Schofieldchair
• CHRISTOPHER GREENALL
• JOAN STAINSBY
• Lois Zapasnik
• Rev PETER DAMIEN MCGUIRE
• Win Tin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST.

• CHILDREN'S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST income £22.4m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• HOPE'S PLACE income £41k
• OUR SPACE (STAFFS) LTD income £181k
• OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• OVINGHAM AND DISTRICT UNDER 5'S 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.