THE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND HOSPICE

Registered charity 1103635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOSPICECARE NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND

Two centre hospice providing therapeutic clinics, hospice at home, lymphoedema management, bereavement support, and a range of complementary therapies.

Objects

THE CARE AND RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM POTENTIALLY LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS, THE SUPPORT OF CARERS AND OF THE BEREAVED, ALL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, AND PRIMARILY IN NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NORTH OF NORTHUMBERLAND

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £62,320 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £901,611 to £839,291. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased to £599,444, which remains within the stated policy target of holding the equivalent of six to nine months of operational expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saint & Co.. Discloses 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 01/02/2025, 1 day after the 31/01/2025 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 04925273

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HospiceCare North Northumberland (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Orife — CEO (source)
• Ann Corak — Head of Care (source)
• Tony Waller — Head of Finance & Operations (source)
• Lucy Bell — Head of Income Generation (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.

• BINDER, Kim Francesca — director, appointed 03/11/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Gaynor Louise — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• SHEPHERD, Ewan — director, appointed 20/01/2025on trustee list
• THORNE, David Roy — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• CRAFT, Alan William, Sir — director, appointed 17/07/2023on trustee list
• COOKE, John — director, appointed 20/09/2022not on trustee list
• BEAUCHAMP, Elaine Claire — director, appointed 30/05/2022on trustee list
• SHERRARD, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/03/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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: The North Northumberland Hospice — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/10/2023.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)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 38.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile 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).

• HOSPICECARE: Good (16/11/2023) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Thorne
• Elaine Claire Beauchamp
• Ewan Shepherd
• Gaynor Louise Jones
• John Cooke MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kim Francesca Binder
• Lesley Clark
• Sir Alan William Craft
• Susan Elizabeth Sherrard

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

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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

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 THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOSPICE LIMITED.

• THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HOSPICE LIMITED income £3.7m
• NORTH LONDON HOSPICE income £15.1m
• NORTH TYNESIDE DISABILITY FORUM LTD income £376k
• THE NORTHAM CARE TRUST income £6.5m
• NORTHPOINT WELLBEING LIMITED income £12.9m
• AGE CONCERN NORTH NORFOLK income £217k

Side by side with its peers

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