HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND

Registered charity 1095708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICE AT HOME - CARLISLE & NORTH LAKELAND, NORTH LAKELAND HOSPICE AT HOME

Providing a free at home palliative care nursing service for persons who are suffering from Cancer and other life- threatening illnesses and giving support to their families and carers.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF AND PROVIDE PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE TO PERSONS OF EITHER SEX WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM A TERMINAL ILLNESS OR FROM ANY OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INFIRMITY, DISABILITY OR DISEASE BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND PROVISION OF DOMICILIARY AND SUPPORTIVE CARE, DAY CARE, RESIDENTIAL CARE AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS S THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED BUT IN PRACTICE CUMBRIA

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

Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£2.1m

Registered

2003

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £131,615 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to a significant decrease in legacy income compared to the previous year. Despite this deficit, the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £3,157,124, which the trustees confirm exceed their stated policy target of approximately £1,048,000. The trustees consider the charity to be solvent and state that reserves remain sound and stable, although they acknowledge unavoidable mounting cost pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: £80,001 - £90,000” — page 33

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: the greater of 6 months budgeted costs or the potential close down costs (reserves figure: £3.2m)

“The Trustees have determined free reserves should be at least equivalent to the greater of 6 months budgeted costs or the potential close down costs. This has been calculated to be almost £1,048,000.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saint & Co.. Discloses 6 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
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
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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 410
Government income: £418,134 — grants £418,134 (2); 21% of the £1,951,784 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 410
Government income: £376,514 — grants £376,514 (2); 16% of the £2,331,630 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 410
Government income: £373,328 — grants £373,328 (3); 22% of the £1,679,788 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04609579 · Financial health read from its filings

The charity’s company — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 March 2026)

Average employees: 0.6900000000000001

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Shirley Reveley — Chair of trustees (source)
Debbie Shearer — Vice chair of trustees (source)
Lady Elizabeth Leeming — President (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.

KAVENEY, Kathryn Susan — director, appointed 04/12/2025not on trustee list
KINSELLA, Melanie — director, appointed 04/09/2025on trustee list
SALKELD, Yvonne Margaret — director, appointed 04/09/2025on trustee list
PORTER, James Ferris — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
SHEARER, Deborah Jane — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
COULTHARD, Kevin — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
LAMB, Janet Spencer — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
GRAY, Margaret — director, appointed 16/02/2021on trustee list
REVELEY, Shirley, Professor — director, appointed 16/02/2021on trustee list
DUNNING, Helen Alexandra, Dr — director, appointed 18/06/2019on trustee list
ROBINSON, Lynne — secretary, appointed 16/02/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 29/05/2018.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)

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£2.1m

Cost of raising funds

£300k

Reserves (reported)

£3.2m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~18.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (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).

Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland: Good (12/07/2018) · CQC record

Register events

Received assets from another charity (22/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Deborah Jane Shearer
James Ferris Porter · trustee of 1 other charity
Janet Spencer Lamb
Kathryn Susan Kaveney Mrs
Kevin Coulthard
Margaret Gray · trustee of 1 other charity
Melanie Kinsella
PROFESSOR SHIRLEY REVELEY
Yvonne Salkeld

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£2.0m	£2.1m
31/03/2024	£2.3m	£2.1m
31/03/2023	£1.7m	£1.8m
31/03/2022	£2.1m	£1.4m
31/03/2021	£1.9m	£1.3m

Common questions

Is HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £131,615 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to a significant decrease in legacy income compared to the previous year. Despite this deficit, the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £3,157,124, which the trustees confirm exceed their stated policy target of approximately £1,048,000. The trustees consider the charity to be solvent and state that reserves remain sound and stable, although they acknowledge unavoidable mounting cost pressures. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saint & Co..

What does the highest-paid employee of HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band.

Who funds HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND as a grant recipient include E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2022	£17k
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2024	£6k
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2021	£5k
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k	Social Needs
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k	Social Needs
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2025	£3k
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2026	£3k
E C GRAHAM'S CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	FY2023	amount not stated

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	2	£48k
THE JONES 1986 CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£175k
FORT FOUNDATION	1	£83k
BNA CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION	1	£65k
THE VIOLET TRUST	1	£50k
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	£44k
THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£40k
STAND AGAINST MND	1	£30k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PENDLESIDE HOSPICE.

PENDLESIDE HOSPICE income £5.7m
KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE income £9.2m
THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOSPICE LIMITED income £3.7m
HOSPICE AT HOME VOLUNTEERS income £79k
THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE income £1.2m
KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE TRUST income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HOSPICE AT HOME CARLISLE AND NORTH LAKELAND	£2.0m	£80,001 - £90,000	0	above	—	no doubt
PENDLESIDE HOSPICE FY2025	£5.7m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
KATHARINE HOUSE HOSPICE FY2025	£9.2m	—	—	above	37.7%	no doubt
THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOSPICE LIMITED FY2025	£3.7m	£90,001 - £100,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HOSPICE AT HOME VOLUNTEERS FY2026	£79k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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