HOSPICE AID UK

Registered charity 1092575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY AID UK

TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF, CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE SICK, ESPECIALLY OF THE DYING, AND THE SUPPORT AND CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED.TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF INDEPENDENT HOSPICES

Objects

(A) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF, CARE AND TREATMENT OF THE SICK, ESPECIALLY OF THE DYING, AND THE SUPPORT AND CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED;(B) TO FACILITATE AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF INDEPENDENT HOSPICES;(C) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE ENGLAND AND WALES

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 · 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 surplus of £21,901 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £56,621. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient cash to meet its liabilities for at least one year, maintaining a going concern basis despite economic pressures. The charity's reserves policy targets a minimum of £50,000, which the actual reserves exceed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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)

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.

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 31/03/2021 (received 31/08/2022, 212 days after the 31/01/2022 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 04400127

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.

• MEAKIN, Robert Grant, Dr — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• MEEGAN, Jayne — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• GRATZE, Matthew Clifford — director, appointed 09/09/2019on trustee list
• CHERRYMAN, Barry — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• GRATZE, Joanne — secretary, appointed 11/04/2007

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Cherryman
• Jayne Meegan
• Matthew Gratze
• Robert Meakin

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 HOSPICE UK.

• HOSPICE UK income £34.1m
• HUMAN AID FOUNDATION income £344k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• HUSSAIN AID income £141k
• ASYLUM AID income £1.7m
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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