DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE
Registered charity 1105924 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE OLDHAM HOSPICE APPEAL
Provides palliative care services for local people with life limiting illness
Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £734,316 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 2.3% to £5,977,268. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains strong financial governance and a positive financial performance, with unrestricted funds balance sitting at £8,179,749. The trustees consider the charity to be in a good position to serve the community and continue investing in key areas.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Chadwick & Company (Manchester) Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dr Kershaw's Hospice (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Adele Doherty — Chief Executive (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.
- LARKIN, Alexandra Jane — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
- MURPHY, Fiona Doune — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
- BURNELL, Daniel Mark — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
- CLAPHAM, Wendy — director, appointed 16/07/2026on trustee list
- TAYLOR, Kathryn Joyce — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
- HESSELGROVE WARD, Julie — director, appointed 21/11/2024not on trustee list
- KITCHENER, Daryl Ian Martin — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
- NICHOLLS, Nicola Joanne — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
- JONES, Eileen Frances — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
- MACDONALD, David Norman — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
- BUCHANAN, Richard William — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
- HADFIELD, Mark Ian — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
- SCHOFIELD, Stephen Paul — director, appointed 27/01/2021on trustee list
- DAMIANOU, Rachel Louise — director, appointed 08/10/2019on trustee list
- LIPTON, Jonathan Richard — director, appointed 01/05/2015on trustee list
- DAMIANOU, Rachel Louise — secretary, appointed 16/01/2020
Official officers record.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Property (HM Land Registry)
3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £85k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Dr Kershaw's Hospice — Registered, 1 registered location, 4 regulated activities, last inspected 27/10/2016.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)
Cost of raising funds
£970k
Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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).
- Dr Kershaw's Hospice: Good (22/12/2016) · CQC record
- ALEXANDRA JANE LARKIN
- DANIEL MARK BURNELL
- DARYL IAN MARTIN KITCHENER
- David Macdonald
- Eileen Jones
- FIONA DOUNE MURPHY
- JULIE HESSELGROVE WARD
- KATHRYN TAYLOR
- Mark Hadfield
- NICOLA NICHOLLS
- Rachel Louise Damianou · trustee of 2 other charities
- Richard Buchanan
- Stephen Schofield
- WENDY CLAPHAM
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Oldham
Income and spending
Common questions
Is DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income of £734,316 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 2.3% to £5,977,268. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains strong financial governance and a positive financial performance, with unrestricted funds balance sitting at £8,179,749. The trustees consider the charity to be in a good position to serve the community and continue investing in key areas. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Chadwick & Company (Manchester) Limited.
Who funds DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name DR KERSHAW'S HOSPICE as a grant recipient include THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED, MILLS AND REEVE CHARITABLE TRUST, LIFE FOR A LIFE MEMORIAL FORESTS AND GARDENS, The Squire Patton Boggs Charitable Trust.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Funders of similar charities
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Side by side with its peers
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